tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55326562761134163782024-03-06T05:52:58.098+08:00LARITA KUTSARITA'S SPOONFULSLarita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-38892325810349675132012-02-02T15:05:00.006+08:002012-02-02T15:26:57.049+08:00Tatlong Gabi, si David Fincher, at ang epekto ng Domino<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;"> Noong isang gabi, </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">nag-aayos ako ng mga damit. Nagtabi ako ng ilan, ibinalot sa plastik, atsaka gamit ang pentelpen, ay isinulat ko sa plastik ang label na "Lordei at Charley." Andami ko na kasing damit. Maliban sa nagpapanibagong-hubog din ako (naks), ay hindi na rin kasi praktikal ang magtago ng damit na sa sobrang dami ay kaya kong huwag umulit ng outfit buong taon. Nakakahiya man aminin, ay totoo ito. Hindi naman ako mabili. Nagkataon lang talagang masagana ang Nanay ko sa mga kagamitan, at kapag 'di na kasya sa kanya o kaya'y pinagsawaan na, ay ipinaaampon na niya ang mga ito sa akin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 40px;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">"Ayusin mo nga posture mo," madalas kong sabihin kay Lordei. Medyo kuba kasi talaga siya, e matangkad pa naman din, maganda, at tila pang-model ang katawan. Payat pero 'yung eleganteng payat. Hindi ko naman ibinabandera ang "slim" na pangangatawan, ngunit mukhang natural kasi ito sa katauhan ni Lordei. Malalaki rin ang kanyang mga mata, at mas lalong lumalaki 'pag nakakakita ng ipis, 'pag napapatili dahil nakatanggap ng practical joke na teks mula sa ilang pilyong mga kaibigan, o kaya'y 'pag nae-eskandalo ng simpleng akbay/kiss/panlalandi ng iba. Madaling maapektuhan si Lordei. Pero ayon nga sa isa ring malapit niyang kaibigan, ay "talagang hindi matatawaran ang kanyang katatagan."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 40px;"> </span></strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 40px;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Hinimok ko siyang mag-ayos. Malaki kasi talaga ang potensyal ni 'Te na maging "classy," pero parang nasanay na lang siya sa mga ginupit-gupit niyang t-shirt, ginupit-gupit niyang shorts, at simpleng pares ng tsinelas. Sabi ko naman, nakatutulong kasi ang pag-aayos minsan sa pagma-"masswork." Sumang-ayon naman siya. Tinanggap niya ang mga damit na ibinigay ko dati pa. Minsan ay nagpalagay pa siya ng makeup sa kanyang mga kabahay. Pero ang hindi ko nasabi sa kanya, ay kahit ano pa ang ayos niya, magara man ang damit at may makeup man o wala, nananatili siyang maganda sa mata ng masang kanyang pinagsisilbihan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 40px;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Kagabi, </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">hinihintay ko ang utol ko nang magteks siyang hindi raw siya makakauwi agad dahil magdadala siya ng mga gamit kay Lordei, tapos sabay teks naman si Absie ng, "Ingat ka." Mula roon, ay nalaman ko na sa mga sumunod na mensaheng nasa ospital nga ang dalaga. Nanakawan daw. May injuries. 'Yun lang. Nang makausap ko na si utol kalaunan, saka lang naipaliwanag sa akin kung ano ang nangyari.*<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 40px;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Bandang alas-tres ng hapon ay may lalaking tumungo sa University Student Council office upang magtanong kung pwede pa mag-setup ng booth sa nalalapit na UP Fair. Naroon sina Lordei at Shai, nag-uusap. Tumulong sila kay kuya at ibinigay sa kanya ang contact number ng isang USC officer. Noong nalaman ni kuyang wala na raw bakante sa fair, umalis na siya. May kinailangan sigurong puntahan si Shai, kaya't siya ay nagpaalam muna. Maya-maya, pumasok na ang ilang mga lalaki (kasama 'yung nag-inquire kani-kanina lang). Sabay lock ng pinto. Mabilis daw ang mga pangyayari. Paalis na ang mga kalalakihan sa Vinzons Hall sakay ng isang taksi nang mapansin ng sekyu na kumakaripas sila. Saka siya pumito. Matapang ang drayber ng taksi. Preno agad matapos ang pito. Naaresto ang isa, samantalang nakatakas ang iba. Nakatira raw ng droga ang nahuling suspek. Nabawi rin ang mga ninakaw na laptop, telepono, at iba pa. Sa ikalawang palapag ng nasabing gusali, sa loob ng opisina ng USC, nandoon ang katawan ni Lordei--walang-malay at kritikal ang mga dagok sa ulo. Sabi ng doktor at ilang mga saksi, pinukpok daw siya ng tubo sa ulo. Idinala si Lordei sa UP Infirmary bago inilipat sa Capitol Medical Center. Hanggang ngayon, ay nasa Intensive Care Unit pa rin siya ng ospital. Wala pa ring malay. Kailangan daw niyang pumailalim sa isang operasyon upang maiwasang dumiretso ang mga pira-pirasong bahagi ng kanyang bungo sa utak.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 40px;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Habang pinapakinggan ko ang salaysay na ito, hindi ko maiwasang mapamura nang ilang beses. "Alas-tres ng hapon...maliwanag...hindi gabi.... Ni-lock sa kwartong mag-isa...kritikal sa ICU." Naisip ko kung ano ang ginagawa ko sa hapong yaon. Naisip ko rin kung ano ang mga pinagkakaabalahan ng ilang mga kaibigan at kasama sa paaralan nang mga panahong 'yun--malamang may nagru-room-to-room bilang bahagi ng kampanya para sa mas de-kalidad at mas abot-kayang edukasyon, siguro may ilang nagmi-meeting o tumatambay sa unang palapag mism ng Vinzons, baka may nagmu-movie marathon sa kanilang mga bahay-bahay, o nagfe-Facebook, o nagna-9gag. Naisip ko kung sa panahong 'yun ay nagge-Gameboy si Noynoy, o minamaneho ang kanyang puting Porsche, o nagbibigay ng talumpati sa kung saang opening ng isang Jollibee branch, puno ng mga pangako, mga imahen ng isang maliwanag na bukas at isang partikular na "landas" na hindi ko na sasabihin kung anong itsura at saan patungo dahil nakakasawa na. Naisip ko ang eksena sa hapong yun mula sa mahaba-habang Coronavela, kung saan ang mga senador at ilang matutunog na pangalan sa loob ng isang malaking bulwagan ay nagtatalastasan kung dapat nga bang ikonsider na makatarungan ang pagpapahiram ng pera ng isang family corporation kahit pa ito'y dissolved na. Naisip ko kung ano ang tumakbo sa isipan ng gwardya, ng taksi drayber, ng bangag na lalaking nahuli, at ng mga nakatakas. Gaano ba kahirap ang mga kinakaharap nilang krisis? Marami ba silang anak? May mga kabit at bastardo kaya silang kailangang pakainin? Anu-ano kaya ang mga pangarap nila sa buhay?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 40px;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Hindi ko maiwasan. Sa mga ganitong pangyayari ay umiikot ang aking utak ala-David Fincher, at pinagtatagpi-tagpi ang mga buhay-buhay ng sangkatauhan sa loob lamang ng ilang mga minuto. Dahil sa loob ng mga minutong iyon ay nakakulong si Lordei sa loob ng isang kwarto, pinagtulungan ng ilang sabog na kalalakihan, at pinagpupupukpok nang walang habag. Ini-imagine kong kaya rin sukdulan ang pagpahirap sa kanya, ay dahil nagtititili siya at pilit lumalaban. Nagpupumiglas. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">At ngayon, kahit wala siyang malay at naghihikahos, gumagana pa rin ang kanyang puso. Ang tatag</span></span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Tipikal iyon kay Lordei. Tipikal iyon para sa kung sinong alam ang kanyang mga karapatan at pinipiling ipaglaban ang mga ito.</span></div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 40px;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Ngayon, nagdarasal ang iba. Ang iba naman ay nagpo-post ng kung anu-anong narsisistikong links sa Facebook--mga halimbawa ng itinanim na false, almost fantasy-like "simulacrum," ayon na rin sa paliwanag ni Ser Roland Tolentino ukol sa postmodernism. Samantala, ang iba naman ay walang kaalam-alam sa nangyari. Para sa ilan, si Lordei ay dapat tulungan, dasalan, bantayan sa ospital. At dapat lang na ipatuloy ang laban para sa dagdag-badyet ng maintenance and other operations expenditures (MOOE) ng Unibersidad ng Pilipinas. Para naman sa iba, si Lordei ay isa lamang sa primetime news headlines. 'Di ba't mapapamura ka lang talaga? Maiinis ka rin sa mga hipster na kunwari, "tibak," para may kabuluhan lang ang mga buhay at basta lang kumontra sa mainstream, ngunit hanggang online posts lang ang kaya, hanggang existentialist lang na mga pagtatanto at pagra-rationalize. Maa-agit ka rin sa kawalan ng resulta sa laban para sa isang siyentipiko, makabayan, at makamasang edukasyon. Kaya lang naman nag-layoff ng sandamakmak na security guards ang UP dahil nagko-cost cut upang saluhin ang bilyun-bilyong pisong kinakailangang badyet para sa MOOE na hindi naman ibinigay dahil sa ngayon, ay dapat lang na "self-sufficient" 'di umano ang nasabing Pambansang Unibersidad. Ang galing at pogi talaga ng ating pangulo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 40px;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Hindi ito imbento. Lumilitaw na ang mga produkto ng pagbabalewala sa pag-aaral ng kabataang Pilipino. Ikaw man si Lordei, o anak ng simpleng mangingisdang pasado sa UPCAT ngunit 'di nakapag-enroll dahil sa P100 000-matrikula kada semestre, o estudyante ng UP na nanganganib na ma-extend dahil kailangang magtrabaho upang mag-ipon para sa isyu-shoot na film thesis, o simpleng aktibistang estudyanteng pinili ang ganoong buhay dahil mismong mga kundisyon na rin ang nag-udyok upang bumalikwas, ito ay totoo:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Nakamamatay ang pagpapabaya ng estado.</em><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 40px;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Ngayong gabi</span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">, tutungo ako sa aking kaibigan. Sana ay swertehin at mayakap ko man lang siya nang mahigpit. Kinabukasan, itutuloy ko ang kanyang laban at ng marami pang maalam at nakikialam na mga tunay na Iskolar ng Bayan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">*Ang mga ito ay isinalaysay lamang sa manunulat. Maaaring mabago ang ilang mga detalye kapag nagkamalay ulit si Lordei at mailinaw ang ilang mga bagay. </span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</tbody></table></div></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-73148685974757167652012-01-06T00:30:00.003+08:002012-01-06T00:36:07.641+08:00The Lola Within a Material(ist) Girl: Of Recognizers, Isomorphic Algorithms, and the good ol' Light Cycle match<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">I've always known that there's a hidden nerd in me. I spent the afternoon watching the original Tron (1982) on cable TV. I saw the sequel, Tron: Legacy (2010)--shot and released almost three decades later--in the cinema, and I couldn't help but admire the animation efforts in the classic 1982 sci-fi flick. I swear I endured worse-looking sci-fi films in the 90s and beyond (e. g. Johnny Mnemonic, Battlefield Earth). The writing and the plot weren't that impressive, though, which almost always goes for all </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Hollywood</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">sci-fi titles. I don't get how Yori (Cindy Morgan) kisses Tron (Bruce Boxleitner</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">), and then kisses Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), too, just because "they thought [Tron] was dead"--and actually gets away with that reason when Tron and she finally share a final smooch before the film ends--I mean, how could she? Maybe programs aren't programmed to be faithful. Anyways, Tron was a good enough watch:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjAmwAJZoc2Um0UjjB28WjDsyhus3euZ7TGJ-W2l1w5nAlXVvfTpW9-Roq5NNbTkZXogniFLKOBhCvPZlTFKb1ggDUpzsz017PdV_PkX3B4SHukKs1YmNqVkT6mChP64FuB0Nx4Z6LUq8/s1600/TRON-82.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjAmwAJZoc2Um0UjjB28WjDsyhus3euZ7TGJ-W2l1w5nAlXVvfTpW9-Roq5NNbTkZXogniFLKOBhCvPZlTFKb1ggDUpzsz017PdV_PkX3B4SHukKs1YmNqVkT6mChP64FuB0Nx4Z6LUq8/s640/TRON-82.png" width="433" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Quorra (</span>while <span class="fine" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">showing Sam her book collection</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">): </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">But between you and me, Jules Verne is my favorite. Do you know Jules Verne?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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Quorra: What's he like?</span> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></td></tr>
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<blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><em style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If anyone attacks us and if the conditions are favorable for battle, we will certainly act in self-defense to wipe him out resolutely, thoroughly, wholly and completely (we do not strike rashly, but when we do strike, we must win). We must never be cowed by the bluster of reactionaries.</span></span></em></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><em style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">- Mao Zedong on the Kuomintang fight </span></span></em></span></span></div></blockquote><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I was late. On the 23rd of September this year, I have to admit, I did not go to UP Diliman at the pre-arranged calltime. The previous night's "Walastik! Repapips, Dehins sa Cuts" concert/vigil ended at around one in the morning, plus I've always had problems with waking up early since the day I was born (I probably came out later than expected, too), so my stupid body clock was just not going to do me any favors. Waking up at 7 a.m., the calltime, itself, sent me to a "shower shortcut" (a few splashes here and there), a breakfast of Prest-O and Choc-O amidst my "F**k-Oh's" while running towards an Ikot jeep, and a guilty discovery of what looked like hundreds of students already geared for the day's drill: UP STRIKES BACK's Third Day--The Tsunami Walk that was supposed to literally rock the gates of Malacañang.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Then again, when one commits a mistake, one simply corrects it as quickly as possible. So I ran to and from colleges, together with rows of genuine "Iskolar ng Bayan/Alagad ng Media" from the College of Mass Communication. It was exhilarating to be able to stage a snake rally and penetrate the walls of the College of Music and shout out messages such as "Edukasyon, edukasyon! Karapatan ng mamamayan!" along its corridors in the midst of its usually undisturbed melodies. Joining the rest of the UP Diliman contingent in front of Palma Hall was an altogether different story, however. "Exhilarating" is a term that does no justice. At first, the number of students, faculty, and employees did not seem so big, but as the long march began, as it proceeded along Philcoa, it suddenly dawned on me that we would, indeed, be flooding Mendiola.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And I was not wrong. After an estimated 10-kilometer walk from Diliman to Mendiola, I witnessed one of the most mindblowing scenes in my life, so far: joined by the contingents from other state colleges and universities, our combined numbers barely filled the Don Chino Roces Bridge. "Parang Mayo Uno lang!" I thought to myself. At this point, the bridge was filled with various and yet solid chants that were so loud that it was impossible to converse with anybody audibly. If Butch Abad claimed that there was no budget cut <em style="line-height: 16px;">at all</em>, he had to be seriously mistaken. If PNoy declared us his "boss," he was a total prick for lying. 8 000 people from academic institutions leaving their respective buildings (or lack thereof), has got to reiterate one glaring truth: We refuse to take a step farther on the Tuwid na Daan. It is now clear what this straight, yellow brick road entails: foreign interests before those of the Filipino people, 100% privatization of social services (one of the provisions in PNoy's proposed Charter Change--the fastest and quietest bill that is in progress in the House of Representatives), and all other neoliberal policies that will do Uncle Sam proud.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Further proving its anti-people stance, the current administration spits in the face of the youth when<span style="line-height: 16px;"> Deputy <span style="line-height: 16px;">Presidential Spokesperson</span> Abigail Valte</span> says, "Focus on your studies," addressing the tens of thousands of students who went on a nationwide strike last week. How the hell can I focus on our studies when I have a friend who works extra hours to pay her overdue 2008 student loan? When my brother's tuition fees range from P20-25 000/semester while I was able to finish most of my units at P300 each? When my orgmate's bandmate was granted Bracket E1 (free tuition) by the UP Diliman's <span style="line-height: 16px;">Socialized Tuition and Financial Assistance Program (STFAP)--"an income generating program," as former UP President Emerlinda Roman would refer to it, as-a-matter-of-factly--</span>but was also, recently, barred from enrolling because of his unpaid student loans? Now, this is only a single yellow brick, for I have found it impossible to "focus on my studies" eversince the Ayala-initiated and National Housing Authority(NHA)-implemented QC-CBD project and other plans designed by business oligarchies have been sending hundreds of thousands of homeless families to hellish places such as Montalban, Rizal along faultlines with no eletricity or water, because, apparently, the cities are better off filled by condominiums, parks, malls, and all that cosmopolitan jazz rather than actual residences. The book, Philippine Social Realities, which was published decades ago, may get republished and rewritten, but the reality that "seven out of ten Filipino farmers remain landless" still remain an unchanged reality up to this day. Yes, Miss Valte, it is only right that we focus on our studies, <em style="line-height: 16px;">if only</em> your boss--because it is now quite obvious that we are, in fact, <em style="line-height: 16px;">not </em>PNoy's "boss"--focuses on our <em style="line-height: 16px;">education</em>. If only this administration focuses more on what its constituents need in order to rightfully call themselves citizens of a democratic society, rather than kissing foreign, imperialist asses.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The world is alit with the flame of protest: The 100 000 students leaving their classrooms and heading to the streets </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">of Chile</span><span style="line-height: 16px;">, the thousands who have been occupying Wall Street, the tens of thousands who declared a National Strike in the Philippines. These and other symptoms of an oppressed society will eventually ripen the conditions for what Mao Zedong once described as "self-defense." Indeed, the state must be afraid of its people, and not the other way around. Because the times call for more militant actions than lighting candles against budget cuts, or claiming responsibility for convening progressive alliances that oppose budget cuts but whose presence is merely felt in photo opportunities, Facebook posts, and a few meter-stroll as their so-called "involvement" in last Friday's Tsunami Walk. Yes, UP ALYANSA, I am talking to you. Go fix yourselves, and do something genuinely "para sa bayan." Your opportunism only worsens the crises that beset the common Filipino.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">And given these times, we, the people who set forth this movement calling for a freer nation, will always give our solid response. We will deliver numbers and results, because we are the decisive forces. We will rock the gates of Malacañang, and shake the status quo, because we believe that we deserve our democratic rights, far more than the 20 richest Filipinos deserve their daily dose of </span>Häagen-Dazs ice cream, far more than Obama's wife deserves her uber-stylish wardrobe, far more than the Imperialist powers deserve their automatic licenses to enslave and kill. </span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">To those who were not able to reach their maximum militancy during the Nationwide Strikes, the struggle did not end there. With the fingers of my right hand crossed and my left fist clenched upward, I hope that, when the next opportunity for you to join the fight for our rights presents itself, you will leave the confines of your classroom or the comforts of your bedroom. I hope that your voice will be heard along with the others' as we fill the streets with our chants, our speeches, and our songs. And for myself, I hope that I start the next days an early, incredibly angry bird.</span></div><div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="line-height: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table></div></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-29382848156242160562011-09-28T02:05:00.001+08:002011-09-28T02:06:56.536+08:00The Lola Within a Material(ist) Girl: Hacked and Bee-stung Today<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just saw Hackers (1995) this afternoon. Found the film quite atrocious, but sat through it because 1) I never "not finish" a film, no matter how bad, unless it's High School Musical; and 2) I must say, Angie was lookin' gooooooood back then. I mean she's still incredibly attractive now, but Kate Libby's was the best look I've seen her don. It's everything I want to do with my hair and clothes but can't, because if I get a pixie 'do, I might end up looking like a soccer mom (since I don't have naturally straight hair), while androgynous getups aren't exactly flattering on bumps and curves. Kate kicks ass for me anytime. Forget Lara Croft.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Sinikap kong bigyang-lunas ang personal kong pagkabagabag. Tumungo ako sa Sitio San Roque nang sila ay maglunsad ng Barikadang Bayan laban sa demolisyong ipinatupad ng lokal na gubyerno ng Quezon City at National Demolishing, este, Housing Authority (NHA). Syempre, may basbas din ito ni Noynoy at ni Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo noong siya rin ang namuno sa kanyang pagkahaba-habang rehimen. Malaki raw kasi talaga ang utang na loob ng kahit na sinong presidente ng reaksyunaryong adminstrasyon sa mga Ayala, ang nangunguna sa pagsulong sa Quezon City Central Business District (QC-CBD) project, kung saan idi-displace ang maraming komunidad sa nasabing lungsod upang pagtayuan ng kung anu-anong business establishment gaya ng mga parke, condominium, mall, atbp. Kabilang na rito ang UP-Ayala Land na mistulang dinudusta ang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas sa mga naglalakihang gusali at parking space nito, samantalang ang mga gusali at pasilidad ng UP ay kulang-kulang at unti-unting lumulubha ang kundisyon; samantalang ang mga estudyante ng School of Library and Information Studies ay umaakyat pa sa ikatlong palapag ng Main Library dahil wala silang sariling building para sa kanilang mga klase.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Oras ng paghakbang ko sa kahabaan ng Agham Road, bumalik sa akin lahat ng pagsisikap ng UP Sining at Lipunan (SILIP) at iba pang progresibong mga samahan sa pago-organisa at pagsulong ng anti-demolisyong laban kasama ang mga maralita simula pa noong 2010. Iba talaga 'pag bumabalik sa komunidad. Kalunos-lunos ang pagkakaiba ng mga uri sa eskwelahan at sa pinakamahihirap na bahagi ng kalungsuran. Iba ang mga amoy, iba ang lagkit ng pawis sa init ng araw, iba ang lagkit ng balat matapos maulanan, at syempre, ibang-iba ang mga tanawin. Kung sa paaralan, paghawak mo pa lang ng mikropono--upang talakayin ang mga kanser sa lipunan at alternatibong mga panlunas dito--ay hindi ka na papansinin at minsan ay makakarinig ka pa ng "Opposition to the state is disrespect of others' views" (or something to that effect), sa komunidad, nakangiti na agad sila pagka-inabutan mo sila ng polyeto. Mas bukas ang mga tao roon sa pagbalikwas. Palibhasa, mas konkreto roon ang mga sinasabi nating "imperyalismo," "pyudalismo," at "burukrata-kapitalismo." Hindi man nila gagap pa ang mga konseptong ito, alam nilang ang kanilang almusal, tanghalian, at hapunan ay nakadepende sa mga katagang iyon, mayroon mang nakahaing pagkain o wala. Sabi nga ng utol ko, "malapit sa bituka e." Ang sarap bumalik sa batayang hanay ng masa. "Masarap" sa diwang nakabubuhay ito ng alab dahil nandoon na lahat ng kahirapan sa harap mo, ang lahat ng rason upang makibaka. Hindi kailangan ng propagandang ahitasyon. Ang simpleng paningin, pang-amoy, pandinig, panlasa, at pandama ay sapat na upang mamulat nang paulit-ulit. Paulit-ulit. Ngunit ang masaklap dito, kailan ba matatapos ang lahat ng paghihirap na ito sa harap ko? Kailangan pa bang umabot sa pagkakataong mayroon akong masaksihang naga-agaw- buhay dahil sa demolisyon, o pagtapyas sa badyet ng mga panlipunang serbisyo?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Hindi kasi kahiwalay sa budget cuts on social services ang isyu ng kahirapan ng Pilipinas. Nakakaasar nga ang salitang "isyu" kasi parang lumiliit ang mga kahulugan ng mabibigat na termino gaya ng "kahirapan." Sabi, mas priyoridad ng kasalukuyang administrasyon (at kahit ng mga nakaraan pa) ang bayad-utang. Naalala ko noon si Moochie, isa ring myembro ng SILIP na nagtatrabaho na ngayon para sa IBON Foundation. Kinompyut daw niya ang projected na total ng mga utang ng Pilipinas sa World Bank. Kahit tatlong daang taon pa raw ang lumipas, hinding-hindi natin ito mahahabol kahit na magpatupad pa tayo ng patung-patong na neyoliberal na mga polisiya (gaya ng pagtaas ng pasahe sa MRT at LRT, pagkaltas sa badyet ng mataas na paaralan, atbp.). Hindi pa rito kabilang ang mga utang at pangungurakot ng pondo ng gobyernong lingid sa kaalaman ng publiko. Sabi rin, mas priyoridad ng kasalukuyang administrasyon (at kahit ng mga nakaraan pa) ang miltar, kung kaya't may bago (na hindi naman kabaguhan) tayong warship at bibili raw ng choppers para sa Armed Forces of the Philippines. Umabot ba naman ng halos isang trilyon ang pondong ibinigay rito. Oo, alam kong nasa gitna ng isang halos 'di-pansing giyerang sibil ang Pilipinas, pero sukdulan naman ang katakawan nilang patayin ang insurhensya. Mabuti naman kung masasamang tao talaga ang kanilang pinagpapapatay na parang mga ipis, dinudukot at itinatagong sapilitan, at ipinapatapon sa mga selda samantalang nakukuha pa ng mga Ampatuan at Leviste na makalabas ng kulungan. Ang mga katulad nina Angie Ipong, Karen Empeño, Sherlyn Cadapan, Ericson Acosta, at isa ring SILIP member na si Maricon Montajes ay ang pinakamababait, masisipag, at makabayang taong nakilala ko. Hindi ko man nakilala nang personal ang iba sa kanila, damdam ko ang kanilang mga naiwang bakas sa kanilang mga kaibigan at mahal sa buhay. "Hindi krimen ang magsilbi sa bayan," wika nga ni Nanay Angie. </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Bakit nga ba napakadali mandahas ng estado? Parang wala silang takot sa masang Pilipino. Lahat na lang binabanatan nila: magsasaka, manggagawa, maralitang-lungsod, estudyante, mga babae, lalo na ang Nanay ko. Isa siyang dedikadong empleyado ng gubyerno, ngunit nagawa siyang alisan ng sweldo dahil lang sa mga sabi-sabi. Nagagalit ako kapag naiisip ko ang mga nang-api sa Nanay ko, sa mga nanggagahasa ng mga Pilipinong dalaga sa Clark, sa mga nagpapatupad ng mga polisiyang nagpigil sa sangkapat ng UPCAT passers na hindi makapasok sa tinaguriang premier state university para sa mga matatalinong dukha, sa mga nagpapapatay ng mga lider ng unyon ng malalaking pagawaan, sa isang angkang halos ipakain sa atin ang kulay na dilaw at ugat ng halu-halong samyo ng asukal at dumanak na dugo sa Hacienda Luisita.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Galit ako. Galit na galit. Ngunit ibang klaseng galit. Hindi 'yung tipong kusang mawawala pagka-sinuntok mo ang pader, o may sinigawang makulit na kapatid, o may minurang natapakang tae. Hindi rin ito madaling napapawi ng isang tetrapak ng Choc-O, o isang episode ng Banana Split Clown in a Million kung saan sunud-sunod na nanalo ang UP Repertory. Ito 'yung galit na gawa ng ating uri, ng ating pagpapahalaga sa kaibahan ng tama o mali, ng ating kakayahang humubog ng kasaysayan. Minsan, nakakaiyak ang liyab sa loob, pero walang kinalaman ang emosyon dito. Dahil sa harap ko, mas marami ang nagugutom na mga aktibistang kaya pa ring tumawa, mas maraming nanay ang halos magputa na lang, mapakain lang ang kanilang mga anak, ang mga Pilipinong namamatay sa bulok na sistema ng isang estadong walang puso--sandali man o paunti-paunti, sa baril man o sa kaltas sa badyet ng mga serbisyong dapat ay bumubuhay sa kanila.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">At habang naglalakad kami ni Charley (isa ring myembro ng SILIP) sa harap ng Palma Hall upang hintayin ang bandang Franco na mag-perform, laking-gulat na lang namin nang aming matuklasang ang concert na sine-set up pala ay para sa kampanya sa pagboto ng Undergorund River ng Puerto Princesa, Palawan bilang susunod na world wonder. Malaki ang produksyon at sari-saring mukha ng mga lokal na artista sa showbiz ang nagsasalita sa malaking LCD screen ukol sa Puerto Princesa. Sa gitna ng kabi-kabilang represyon sa mga estudyante, guro, at kawani ng UP Diliman, nagawa ng ilang mga grupo sa UP na maglunsad ng isang pagdiriwang na halos ipalimot sa Iskolar ng Bayan na siya ay api. Hayun, sa Palma Hall, paulit-paulit na ipinalabas ang video ni Noynoy na naka-maong na pantalon at T-shirt na ine-endorso ang sikat na kweba at ilog ng Palawan. May ilan pang fratmen ang naghiyawan sa tuwa sa panunuod sa kanya. Muntik na akong lumuha. Napakalaking sapak ang aking naramdaman. Malaki pa talaga ang kailangang makamit, masinop na trabaho pa ang kailangang gawin. Hindi lang sa Nationwide Strike magtatapos ang lahat ng tunggalian. Malayo-layo pa ang lakarin. Ang importante, patayin man nila tayo, bombahan ng tubig, alisan ng pondo, o hapagan ng isang mapanlinlang na palabas na mas lalo pang nagpapalalim ng sugat na dulot ng Kapitalismo at Imperyalismo, naroroon pa rin ang ating puhunan: ang ating poot at walang katapusang giliw sa pag-aaral, pag-oorganisa, at pagmomobilisa. Ang pagkamulat at pagmulat ay siklikal at papalaki at papalalim.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Hinding-hindi tayo dapat sumuko dahil walang ibang daan kundi ang pasalungat. Kahit pa tayo'y tumakas, ang lahat ng ibang daan ay tungo rin lang sa serye ng pasulpot-sulpot na mga bangungot. At ang paraan upang tunay na magising ay ang huwag makalimot at mas paghusayan ang pagpapaalala sa lahat ng mamamayang Pilipino: Hindi tayo malaya.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Pahabol: Kung nais ninyong mas maunawaan at pag-aralan pa ang dinaranas ni Juan, huwag mahiyang lumapit sa UP SILIP at iba pang mga kolektib ng mga artista, pangmasang organisasyon, at pambansa-demokratikong grupo. Mabait naman kami/sila. Libre ang mga fora, pelikula, kapihan ('pag may badyet), tawanan, at kwentuhan. Bonus pa roon ang basic mass integrations na inilulunsad sa iba't-ibang komunidad. Mas bet 'to kesa mga donation sa foundations na hindi mo naman alam kung talagang may kabuluhan ang pera n'yo. Huwag matakot magtanong, mangahas, at makibaka. Ang lahat ng pinaka-signipikanteng mga pangyayari sa kasaysayan ay bunga ng sama-samang pagkilos. Madali kaming makita sa mga lobby ng inyong mga kolehiyo, sa kalsada, sa klasrum. Basta, nagkalat lang diyan. Kitakits!</span></em></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Suddenly, I missed the Mystery Van.</span></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-54163010890903289322011-08-22T00:45:00.002+08:002011-08-22T02:14:01.611+08:00Pahayag ng Kabataang Artista para sa Tunay na Kalayaan (KARATULA) Nasyunal Pilipinas: Ilang Aral mula sa Kontrobersiya sa “Poleteismo” at eksibisyong Kulô<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Art Lesson #1:</span></span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Ito’y panandang-bato sa ating laban para sa karapatan sa malayang pamamahayag. Sa kabila ng ating nagsasalungat na opinyon para o laban sa instalasyong “Poleteismo” ni Mideo Cruz, nakita natin ang pangangailangang magkaisa upang labanan ang intimidasyon, harasment at censorship. Ang pagsasara ng eksibisyon ay isang mapanganib na halimbawa para sa ating mga institusyon – pagsasara rin ito sa kritikal na pagkilatis at malusog na debate di lamang sa likhang-sining o eksibisyon, kundi maging sa mga isyung panlipunan na ipinahihiwatig at kaakibat ng likha at ng buong kontrobersya.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Art Lesson #2: </span></span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Nagsara man ang CCP ay di mapipigilan ang pagbubukas ng makabuluhang talakayan hinggil sa sining, relihiyon, pulitika at lipunan sa iba’t ibang pamamaraan at lagusan. Ang samu’t saring opinyon at suri ay nag-uudyok upang tasahin ang kanya-kanya nating mga pananaw at aktitud, at ang repleksyon nito sa ating lipunan. Bilang mga artista ng bayan, nag-uudyok ang kalagayan upang patuloy na manindigan para karapatan sa artistikong pamamahayag, habang tinatasa at patuloy na hinahasa ang ating mga pananaw at kasanayan sa paglikha ng sining.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Art Lesson #3: </span></span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Dapat ipagtanggol ang kalayaan sa pamamahayag gaya ng pagtatanggol dito ng mga nauna sa atin. Ang laban para sa karapatan sa malayang pamamahayag ay pagtanggol sa sakripisyo ng mga artista ng bayan tulad nina Aurelio Tolentino, Amado V. Hernandez, Lino Brocka at marami pa na nanindigan laban sa marahas na censorship sa sining. Hindi natin nais na ang paglikha ng sining at malikhaing ekspresyon ay dumapa na lamang sa presyur at intimidasyon, gaya ng nanaig sa mapaniil na proyekto ng mga kolonisador at diktador sa ating kasaysayan.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span> </span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Art Lesson #4</span></span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">: Ang laban para sa karapatan sa malayang pamamahayag ay hindi lang interes ng mga artista kundi alang-alang din sa kapakanan ng karamihan. Kaakibat nito ang hamon na labanan ang namamayaning kultura ng kamangmangan, takot, korupsyon, at </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">impunity </span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">na kinukunsinti at tinutunton ng lipunan sa kasalukuyan, sa kabila ng pangakong “matuwid na daan.” Nakuhang magsalita ni Noynoy upang supilin ang “Poleteismo,” habang kakila-kilabot ang kanyang pananahimik sa mahahalagang isyu na bumabagabag sa mamamayan. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Patunay lamang ito na patuloy ang represyon at persekusyon sa sinumang sumalungat sa dominanteng pananaw, hindi lamang sa salita, kundi sa marahas na gawa. Nananatili ang pagpaslang o </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">extrajudicial killings</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> sa mga mamamahayag, aktibista, kabataan, manggagawa, magsasaka, taong-simbahan at iba pa. Nananatili sa likod ng rehas ang daan-daang bilanggong pulitikal, kabilang na ang mga alagad ng sining tulad nina Ericson Acosta, Maricon Montajes at Alan Jasminez.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span> </span></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Art Lesson #5:</span></span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Nanatiling pribilehiyo ang </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">art education and appreciation </span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">para sa iilan. Palasak sa lipunan ang artipisyal na kulturang masa, sensasyonalismo sa midya at mga anyo ng sining na kumukunsinti sa konsumerismo at kamangmangan. Patuloy na pinagkakait ng gubyerno ang abot-kaya at kalidad na edukasyon para sa lahat. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hamon sa mga artista ang tumungo sa masa upang bigyang-buhay ang isang bagong kulturang makabayan, syentipiko, at tunay na kumakatawan sa interes at mithiin ng masa. Hamon sa mga artista ang maging mapagpakumbaba at matuto mula sa masa at maging matapat sa paghalaw ng inspirasyon mula sa kanilang buhay, upang likhain ang makabuluhang sining na kapaki-pakinabang sa masa at sa lipunan. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hindi lamang </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">art lessons </span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ang mapupulot mula sa kontrobersya – mahahalagang aral ito sa panlipunang relasyon ng kapangyarihan at tunggalian sa kultura, pulitika at ekonomiya. Narinig na natin kung paano sila mangaral at mang-uto. Ang hamon sa atin sa kasalukuyan ay ang buksan ang ating mga kaisipan, upang patuloy na mag-aral at matuto. Maging kritikal, magkaisa at isulong ang isang bagong kultura.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">UPHOLD FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION!</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">NO TO CENSORSHIP AND PERSECUTION! </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">END THE CULTURE OF IMPUNITY!</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">FIGHT FOR A NATIONALIST, SCIENTIFIC AND MASS-ORIENTED CULTURE! </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> PALAYAIN ANG SINING!</span></span></span></div></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-87355749412663538872011-08-19T02:52:00.005+08:002011-08-24T00:31:15.142+08:00The Lola Within a Material(ist) Girl: These Boots are Made for Fightin'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR2eEKAMoodrKH5GBj0C4CM3zWd4QGhMnAbEr0cUMM-f7v5aKtvbKmpd_qENuXKpK_2rWm55Cp0bhCvASetL-M_3Ky2e8Fs1VfURZgJ7NGGeiN6LNAfxwFFPmdggCm8g8BniULSmlDC0lb/s1600/Favim.com-28912_large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR2eEKAMoodrKH5GBj0C4CM3zWd4QGhMnAbEr0cUMM-f7v5aKtvbKmpd_qENuXKpK_2rWm55Cp0bhCvASetL-M_3Ky2e8Fs1VfURZgJ7NGGeiN6LNAfxwFFPmdggCm8g8BniULSmlDC0lb/s640/Favim.com-28912_large.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dear True Sovereignty,<br />
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Someday, my feet will find you.<br />
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Love,<br />
The Material(ist) Girl</span> </span> </span></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-56313896406785540802011-08-19T02:50:00.000+08:002011-08-19T02:50:27.491+08:00Ramon and the Songs that Did Not Sing of the Struggle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QspMdo3L22huliS7G2_7A5eJfJPa5jhgjH8b1pGwJKdbr8TSd-r2bpEe7z2iMQoFBgKqAVVeaXXI6ItTSOTllDgCgrRAt3UuNgyNU29XcsSjd8cvxGsPr3vDtuV8GJDDe-mzRWO0XzFc/s1600/287020_2304604182527_1471941825_32607821_7009738_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QspMdo3L22huliS7G2_7A5eJfJPa5jhgjH8b1pGwJKdbr8TSd-r2bpEe7z2iMQoFBgKqAVVeaXXI6ItTSOTllDgCgrRAt3UuNgyNU29XcsSjd8cvxGsPr3vDtuV8GJDDe-mzRWO0XzFc/s640/287020_2304604182527_1471941825_32607821_7009738_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">love</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> this top! And I guess it shows. This vintage floral halter top's previous owner is my Mother who also happens to have designed it, herself. I swear, whenever I feel like shopping, I just take a dip into Mama's closet. It's </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">insane</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">. Anyways, I've been thinking a lot about how people stick labels on everything so easily. What is an "immoral" art exhibit that perfectly illustrates the Filipino Catholic religious fanaticism, compared to the heinous crimes against humanity committed by Ferdinand Marcos and his cronies during the Martial Law? And why has his wife, the "Imeldific"--as she is often glamorized by those who easily forget--suddenly earned enough moral authority to deem Mideo Cruz's "Poleteismo" as "blasphemous," having gone as far as remarking that "even the Igorots wear bahag" and questioning freedom entirely? Where was the beauty of freedom in the Marcos regime? What are "dangerous students" throwing paintballs at a landmark structure like, say, the so-called "Peace Arch" whose gates actually keep the people a hundred meters away from the Presidential Palace, another structure that houses the so-called "legacy," one who shamelessly claims to be serving us, his "boss," while he merely nods to the continuous repression of the Hacienda Luisita farmworkers as well as all the other landless and impoverished farmers in the country?; to the constant reductions from the national budget allotted to basic social services such as education?; to the disturbing rise in the number of human rights violations in the name of "fighting terrorism" and whose victims are mostly, in fact, fighters of democratic rights (advocacy journalists, student leaders and activists, cultural workers, national democratic organizers, and the list goes on)?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Words. Labels. They do not hide the stench, the ugly, the evil, and the truth. The senses perceive what is real. And they will guide us in the unending struggle for what is just and what is not, for what is freedom and what is mere pleasure. In fact, even if I go on about the misuse of words, I may very well confirm my premise. And </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">that </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">is, not even I--who might cite the number of Filipinos experiencing involuntary hunger, or tell you of the crises that befall the residents of Barangay Central and other communities that are demolished in the Ayalas' favor, or recount how so damn hard it is to arouse, organize, and mobilize a population of which a huge percentage has been raised by a cynical, middle-class oriented and upper-class dominated society--can possibly </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">express</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> the people's struggle in its absoluteness.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">And I cannot think of a far better sentence to end this spoonful. Fuck euphemisms.</span></span></div></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-58811131449774095102011-08-11T00:46:00.001+08:002011-08-22T02:45:01.325+08:00"?" ng Isang Kaibigang Nagsisikap Maging Matatas sa Bikol<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">kapag natanggap mo itong sulat ko</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">maaari bang doon mo ito basahin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">sa parang.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ilatag mo sa lupa at hayaan mong mag-usisa</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ang langit sa iyong likuran.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">habang binabasa mo ito</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">marahil ay kay layo na rin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ng aking narating</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">malayo sa mga lugar na pinagsamahan natin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ngunit nanatiling sa ‘yo</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ang damdamin.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ang mga lukot sa papel ay mga lubak</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">at lungkot na hatid ng tinatawid</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">kong mga lambak at bundok</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ang mga mantsa at dumi ay kimpal</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ng putik sa aking paa at pandama</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ang mga punit sa gilid ay hiwa</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">sa gunita, galos sa balat sa pagkakasabit sa sanga.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">sa mga umbok at linyang nagsala-salabat</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">gagapin mong muli ang nangangapal kong palad.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">samantala’y hindi ako nag-aalala</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">naririto ka sa bawat araw,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ipinadarama ng kalikasan.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">tuwing umaga, hinahaplos ko ang iyong buhok</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">sa hibla ng gintong liwanag sa siwang ng mga</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">sanga at dahon</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">sa pagsibol ng bulaklak nasisilayan ko</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ang masaya mong larawan</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">kung paano mong ibunubuka ang iyong bibig</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">bago mo ito marahang isilid sa ngiti</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">matapos mong tumawa</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">sa tanghali, kapag kami’y bumabaybay</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">nadarama ko sa lupa ang init ng kalsada</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">at lansangan ng lungsod,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ang tangan mong bandilang kumakaway sa hangin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">at kamaong nakasuntok sa langit</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ang tapang ng iyong pagsigaw</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">at ang naipon nating galit.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">sa gabi, pagmamasdan ko ang kislap ng iyong mga mata</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">sa pinakamatingkad na bituin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">at muli’t muli akong aawit ng mga paborito nating awitin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">habang inaalala</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ang ningning ng iyong ganda</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">at ang kinang ng iyong pisngi.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">marahil ay masasanay rin ako</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">gayunma’y hindi pa rin magbabago;</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ikaw ang lakas at kublihan sa bawat engkwentro.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">at kung hindi mo mapigilan</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ang pagtahak ng luha sa iyong pisngi</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">at pagpatak nito sa papel,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">mas hihigpit ang yakap ng liham sa bukid</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">upang iluwal nang mas malinaw ang titik</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">ng pagsibol ng aking pag-ibig.</span></span></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-76872193671023020772011-08-06T06:44:00.020+08:002012-01-06T01:50:30.338+08:00The Lola Within a Material(ist) Girl: From "Lao Lao" to "How to Wear the 'Shkirt'"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">While "Kabayan" was busy drowning <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgXJ8tyjo3s&feature=related">Christopher Lao</a>'s car at Mother Ignacia (without informing him, mind you. The nerve!), which would later expose his arrogance in his reaction after he was rescued by concerned "swimmers" nearby, I was stuck at home coercing my brain cells to write something. Anything.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">My months-long literary drought is one of the factors that have greatly affected my recent moods (which would range from "I don't want to live today" to "I feel like killing someone today"), style of work, and overall disposition. Apparently, this was around 24 hours <i>before </i>I discovered what would be the subject of most online bloggers, tweeters (is that what you call people with Twitter accounts?), trolls, etc. in the next few days. And all these have entertained me even more than the online hullabaloo triggered by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVlY3ZTrBkw">Rebecca Black</a>. I mean, Black was clueless and can't be blamed entirely for today's pop culture trash. I can forgive stupidity, but arrogance from a UP graduate owning a car, demanding that everyone tell him it was flooding like Noah's era without asking anybody a single friggin' question was <i>beyond </i>my tolerance. A friend and I even agreed that PNoy should replace his metaphorical allusions of "Wang wang" with "Lao Lao" which will mean--in addition to PNoy's many versions of said metaphor--"people belonging to a class higher than most, with relatively 'great' achievements as defined by the status quo (a Law degree, laude honors, a position in the University Student Council under the banner promoting multiperspective activism, and whatnot) pointing fingers at everyone but him/herself for a wrong that he/she clearly committed." There are many Lao Lao's out there, after all, and they deserve to be given a new sort of taxonomy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Anyways, right before the Lao Lao ideas came in, I resorted to my one guilt trip besides Katy Perry (during her pre-blonde Smurfette and "Firework" days--that godawful song): Fashion. There are times when I am a bit ashamed of my fondness for clothes, shoes, and accessories--and virtually <i>anything </i>you can wear, really--because I know that forwarding the people's struggle also has to entail the process of assuming a simple lifestyle. Whenever I would wear red lipstick or anything that's actually nice, fellow activists would ask me "where I was going." I happen to be <i>not </i>the only one who is subjected to this uncomfortable situation. Rose, a close friend, also questioned why being "tibak" means having to be constricted to shirts, jeans, and sneakers. I mean, who wants to explain what she's wearing, right?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I only consider myself a victim, growing up on Vogue back issues (because we were never rich enough to get the latest copies), romancing the 60s jumpsuits Mick Jagger so seduced many teenage girls with, the shade of red lips his longtime love, Jeri Hall, had popularized in the 70s,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I was five or so, I was made to believe that I was a real fashion designer. </span><span style="font-size: large;">When Papa was away in his lay missionary work, I spent most of my early childhood in the province in the company of my Mother and her three sisters--the "Little Women," I call them. </span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">My aunts' female friends would drop by to gossip and occasionally ask me to draw dresses and suits for them, the renderings of which I happily sprinkled with lots of bows, ruffles, and flare pants (gawd, I still adore those. I owned ten of them when I was in first year college, until skinnies became the norm). They took home my sketches and, during their next house calls, would lie to me about getting my designs made or tailored, and actually wearing them to the "office" or "party" of some sort. Of course, I only believed them up until I realized that most of them did <i>not </i>work in an office (because they were housewives), and cocktail parties were an impossible sight in a little barangay near the public cemetery in the province. The epiphany was <i>awful</i>. It felt like when I was eight, waking up one December midnight to go pee-pee, and finding my Mother wrapping presents in the living room with the late night TV show on. "No wonder, Santa's handwriting looked a <i>lot</i> like Mama's," I thought. I don't remember if my Mother noticed my presence, but what I do remember was afterwards: I went back to bed like nothing happened, but knew that I was already incapable of an uncontrived child's imagination.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I first learned how to draw when my youngest aunt taught me how to sketch angels standing on clouds with halos over their heads. As time went by, I thought my angels looked prettier if they wore gold stud earrings and then, later on, gold ballet flats, instead of standing barefoot on otherwise perfectly comfortable fluffy clouds. My eldest aunt, Tita Manay, and Lola also happened to be seamstresses, although not professionally. They had these thick fashion magazines that didn't just have advertisements, models smiling from glossy pages, but also step-by-step instructions on "how to sew/make" the photographed garments, complete with accompanying illustrations of the stitches, patterns, and the like. It was pretty amazing, actually. Problem was, these magazines were in Chinese, or Korean, or Japanese--I wasn't sure which--so nobody at home really bothered to <i>read </i>the glossies, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1VtPAC-sKOCEPGc8v2SEQp_ZVrfmG7A11sHav5X405asdzZPW6_uUkX4vmpzvT6bfC4KA6bmlORHlhOlyuB9renq5VkARWJDtEzy2ja0SbzLwLm7Hhn6hFcykcyOmnN7BrBxKOW1RlTaC/s1600/chinky.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1VtPAC-sKOCEPGc8v2SEQp_ZVrfmG7A11sHav5X405asdzZPW6_uUkX4vmpzvT6bfC4KA6bmlORHlhOlyuB9renq5VkARWJDtEzy2ja0SbzLwLm7Hhn6hFcykcyOmnN7BrBxKOW1RlTaC/s1600/chinky.jpg" /></a>although the Little Women would joke that I must have understood the text because back then, I had the smallest eyes in the family. Such racists. Up to now, Mama still uses "Chinky" as a term of endearment even if my eyes already grew to their current rounder, bigger size.</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">My Lola was a different story, altogether. She liked her stuff really old school, as in <i>all of it</i>. She had this ancient sewing machine that she never replaced even if it was almost unusable. Her scissors are all black and rusty, her dresser was filled with buttons from lost garments instead of the other way around, her clothes with impossibly old prints of paisely, velvet details, and dark florals. Whenever I go into Lola's bedroom, I feel like I just got out of a time machine. I love it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">What I'm trying to say is, it is no small wonder why I put on what I put on. Growing up surrounded by women who actually give a damn about what they wear has made me this person who simply ogles at Annie Hall's refreshing andogynous look in the late 70s, which Diane Keaton seemed to have acuired up to her golden years (I heard that the actress chose her wardrobe, </span><span style="font-size: large;">herself </span><span style="font-size: large;"> in the 1977 Woody Allen flick),</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">is completely in love with the original styles of Hollywood icon, Katharine Hepburn, who ushered in the men's trousers to women's closets in the 40s, when it was just plain abominable for girls to wear pants,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4QvI0-EbGO7-LOp_cX1dK5kInT4U9AYNFuvVb33bzsbQcfMGaVXlSM4je8asgPNyFIvZPC5ENBreSpb0fVlPQgISyGAj_116qHPl288xBEv4kcJnw35cn66A14cwGMi-954W1KCT2KGms/s1600/katherine-hepburn-wingtip-brogues.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4QvI0-EbGO7-LOp_cX1dK5kInT4U9AYNFuvVb33bzsbQcfMGaVXlSM4je8asgPNyFIvZPC5ENBreSpb0fVlPQgISyGAj_116qHPl288xBEv4kcJnw35cn66A14cwGMi-954W1KCT2KGms/s400/katherine-hepburn-wingtip-brogues.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">fashion designer, Diane von Furstenberg, who "invented" the wrap dress in the 70s,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfyCHVGBipckOY71CjkVV7AFyKlYzOk7wQWowi5dGTgK6rXp89jrpkfMIE7Qb8C18dU1zZm-xxdLut32AUZHzscFLQqZWCYuicDRgPXdG2DUG9DmD9pWBCaGGxsbRFnS3N9OmalamzC-s/s1600/chloeSEVIGNY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hUomEhyphenhyphenBkheMc9YTEMSWYw72uMfDHop3KqTznCZMvV2LH9_IKn-K2386lzLGEZ61Ojx5W08DfTYDfeRbjLHojqHoCSmwxEvNQnDNxbEqGcZrL1EbzSzk4XIIJeQO9-r6EJVkJCeN7Y3p/s1600/diane-c.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hUomEhyphenhyphenBkheMc9YTEMSWYw72uMfDHop3KqTznCZMvV2LH9_IKn-K2386lzLGEZ61Ojx5W08DfTYDfeRbjLHojqHoCSmwxEvNQnDNxbEqGcZrL1EbzSzk4XIIJeQO9-r6EJVkJCeN7Y3p/s400/diane-c.gif" width="266" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">and current fashion icon and critically acclaimed actor, Chloe Sevigny, who can channel any kind of vintage and gets away with it.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfyCHVGBipckOY71CjkVV7AFyKlYzOk7wQWowi5dGTgK6rXp89jrpkfMIE7Qb8C18dU1zZm-xxdLut32AUZHzscFLQqZWCYuicDRgPXdG2DUG9DmD9pWBCaGGxsbRFnS3N9OmalamzC-s/s1600/chloeSEVIGNY.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfyCHVGBipckOY71CjkVV7AFyKlYzOk7wQWowi5dGTgK6rXp89jrpkfMIE7Qb8C18dU1zZm-xxdLut32AUZHzscFLQqZWCYuicDRgPXdG2DUG9DmD9pWBCaGGxsbRFnS3N9OmalamzC-s/s400/chloeSEVIGNY.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Fashion just offers so many inspirations. To me, the classics are still the best choices. Maybe that's why I've been told that I wear too many "Lola clothes." If that means I don't follow trends, then that's good enough for me. To be compeletely honest, though, I'm not that free a bird when it comes to wearing stuff. I have clarified a few rules for myself, such as: Only wear red lipstick when you're going <i>au natural</i> in the rest of your face; Never wear heels when you're not going to a formal event, <i>and </i>on said formal event, take them devils off every now and then. I ABHOR heels. I think that they're oppressive patriarchal state apparatuses (really!); Do not get too matchy-matchy (i.e. shoe color same as belt color as bag color). The secret is in the MIXING of colors, however odd they may seem at first (brown and pink, violet and red, etc.); NEVER, ever limit awesome fashion to high-end brands. Don't be afraid to wear the "unknown's," and go to ukay-ukay stores <i>an hour</i> before they close, because they'll be a lot more receptive to haggling (tried and tested). Also, when choosing clothes at thrift/secondhand shops, be impossibly picky on details, bring all your garment options around with you <i>all the time</i> for selfish purposes, obviously, and then choose the ones that take your breath away in the end, which means you have to do away with at least two pieces; Hit the "sale" racks first. And if it's not "to die for," even if it's 50% off, DON'T BUY IT; The best source of apparel, though, is your closet. Experiment and layer with various pieces. You may even try the seven-piece, seven-day challenge in which you will wear seven pieces of clothing by mixing any number of them, spread out through the entire week. This also saves laundry. Just don't include underwear!; Do not fear "doing it yourself." </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I can mention some other rules, but hey, there shouldn't be that many when you actually want to wear art. "Let a hundred flowers bloom and a thousand schools contend," right, Mao? If you're an artist, you'll never run out of ideas. People whose styles I admire in real life are Gilyanne Blancaflor, Daena de Guzman (her handpainted bags are freakin' awesome!), the Dalena sisters, and of course, probably my biggest influence and <i>the </i>fashion icon of mine, whose vast collection of native bead accessories is most enviable, who introduced me to sneakers and slingback flats, and who taught me how to spell "Maroon," my Mother, Carolina Mendizabal.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">This is my first ever "The Lola Within a Material(ist) Girl" spoonful, a series of which, I hope, will be writings on what it really means to wear art, on not putting fashion on such a high pedestal (sorry, Ms. Wintour), on anything that's decadent based on how old and nostalgic it is to me ('cause I'm a cool "Lola" like that), and on inventing something that's just plain genius--which is my all-time dream, by the way.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Below is an exciting way to wear the long sleeve shirt as a skirt. I call it the "shkirt." Not <i>my </i>invention, though, nope. I made sure to do this at least once in my life. A mind-boggling yet prodigious look. It's best to use the boyfriend shirt that's really loose with really long sleeves for better knotting and shaping. I did the "mini" version, though. No regrets. Try it, yourself!</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">intercourse." - Sir Francis Bacon</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="sqq" style="color: white; font-size: large;">"A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed."</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="sqq" style="color: white; font-size: large;">- Coco Chanel</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="sqq" style="color: white; font-size: large;">“The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at."</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="sqq" style="color: white; font-size: large;">"I find beautiful in the ugly."</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="sqq" style="font-size: large;">- Marilyn Manson</span><span class="sqq" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="sqq" style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">When in doubt, wear red.</span><span class="sqq" style="font-size: large;">"</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="sqq" style="color: white; font-size: large;">- Bill Blass</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">"Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans;</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: large;">it's an open mind." </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">- Gail Rubin Bereny</span></div></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-30535715403228294242011-07-31T23:56:00.002+08:002012-01-06T04:18:28.008+08:00Hey PNoy, Listen Up!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"></span><br />
<div class="uiHeader uiHeaderWithImage uiHeaderTopAndBottomBorder uiHeaderSection" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 4px;"><div class="clearfix uiHeaderTop" style="display: block; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div><h3 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 22px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span> </h3></div></div></div><div class="mtm fbDocument" style="margin-top: 10px;"><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">END HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS; STOP THE KILLING OF JOURNALISTS</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Statement of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication</span></span></em></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">on the first year of the Aquino Presidency, July 25, 2011</span></span></em></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">BENIGNO AQUINO III became President a year ago on the wings of Filipino hopes for change, and their loathing for one of the most unpopular Presidents in Philippine history. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s legitimacy was seriously in question, and to stay in power she practically encouraged human rights violations through such acts as applauding the work of the notorious General Palparan. She also systematically harassed the independent press, and by the force of that example emboldened the killers of journalists and media workers. Before her term ended corruption had metastasized throughout the entire government and political system; human rights violations had escalated to a level unheard of since the Marcos dictatorship; and the Ampatuan Massacre—the worst attack in history on journalists, the free press and democracy itself—had happened in the Maguindanao turf of one of her warlord allies.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> Mr. Aquino was elected on a promise to end poverty by ending corruption. But in the first months of his term he also pledged an end to human rights violations and the killing of journalists, while assuring the press community that, unlike his predecessor, he would defend press freedom rather than undermine it. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> But a scant month and a half in office, in August 2010, in apparent ignorance of the self-regulatory regime in the media, Mr. Aquino threatened to file criminal charges against some of the journalists who were in violation of the ethics of their profession during the coverage of the August 23 hostage taking incident, while refusing to take any action against his friends in government who were primarily responsible for its bloody conclusion. In the ensuing months Mr. Aquino kept up his criticism of the press, accusing them at one point of irresponsible behavior, while, in a call reminiscent of Joseph Estrada, he urged the business community to advertise only in “responsible” media organizations.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> Initially assuring the press and the public as a whole of his support for a Freedom of Information (FOI) act, Mr. Aquino did not include among his priority bills the Tanada FOI bill that had been filed in the 14th Congress. His communications group subsequently proposed a bill that, among other reprehensible provisions, would bestow on an Information Commission the power to hold anyone in contempt and to declare any information on government matters temporarily or permanently exempt from public disclosure.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> In response to the objections of various media groups, the Aquino administration drafted a second version, in which the only change was to make government officials and employees who violate the provisions of the proposed law subject to criminal rather than administrative sanctions. The other provisions to which there are serious objections have been retained. As a result, any FOI bill passed during this administration is likely to restrict rather than enhance public and media access to information.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> Meanwhile, the killing of political activists and journalists has continued, with over 25 extrajudicial killings recorded in the first six months since Mr. Aquino came to power, while the killing of seven journalists during the past year constitutes a record to equal that of 2006, when seven journalists were also killed for their work. The killings are taking place in the context of raids, arrests and other harassments against mass organizations that have since resumed after a brief hiatus. Our very own Film student Maricon Montajes remains in jail in Batangas since June 2010.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> That Mr. Aquino, among other failures, has not stopped human rights violations and the killing of journalists is due to his adoption of a supposedly new counter-insurgency policy, the aimless drift of his administration, the corrosive factionalism among his officials, his inability to control the military, and his unwillingness to even attempt the dismantling of private armies. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
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</div></div></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-66293381174001533262011-07-27T01:50:00.005+08:002012-01-06T04:19:32.251+08:00Masakit sa Tainga, Maging sa Mata ni Patrick "Bote" Bautista<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span><br />
<div class="uiHeader uiHeaderBottomBorder mbm" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="clearfix uiHeaderTop" style="display: block; zoom: 1;"><div><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">St8 owf THe na+10WN Addr3sS</span></span></span></span></h2></div></div></div><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix" style="display: block; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">0F</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hiz excEllenc3Y b3n!gnow ♥ xD ♥ s LoLz. @Qu!n0h 1!eH</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pr3sid3n+ 0wf the ph!lIPpiN3z</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">t0h ThE congrEZs 0F the phil!PPiNeZ</span></span></span></h2><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">[deL!VeReD @t the s3zZioN haLl 0f ThE h0Uze 0f Reprez3nt@tIvez ♥♥♥♥♥, baTUAz@N P@mBu@nZah ♥ xD ♥ cOmpL3x L0lZ, quEzoWn ci+y oN July 25 JeJ3j3Je ♥♥♥♥♥, 2011]</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">z3N8te Pr3z!D3N+ Ju@n p0WNc3 3nrile p0wz ♥♥♥♥♥; spe@ker fEl1CiAn0Wh VelMownt3SsssZz; biSe pR3ZidENTE JEj0muar binAeh; mGaH dU@TiNg p@ngul0ng fIdel VuAldEz rAmoZ at jos3Ph ej3rc1tOh estraD@h; cH!3f jUZtiC3 r3naTOH c0WroNUah At @nG aT1n6 mg@h ka6ALANg-GUAlu@Ng nah mah!zTruadoH NG K0WrT3 sUPReMAh; mgaH k@galang-galanG nAh kAsApI nG dIploMatic ♥ xD ♥ corpZ l0Lz; mgaH M1Yemvr0h ng kAmaru@H d3 REpRezEntAnTe At ng zen@doWh; mGuah lOc@l g0wv3rnM3nt oWFf1Cialz jeJeJeje ♥♥♥♥♥; Mg@h m1YemBR0wh nG At!N6 g@bINEte ♥♥♥♥♥; mGaH Un!pORM@downG K@s@Pi NG m!LiT@r @t KAPuliSAn j3j3jejessSszZ; mg@h kAPWUaH M3 n@GzeS3rb!ZyoH S@h TaUmb@yan;</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">@t ZU@H mgaH M!nAmAhaL KowNG KUabuAb@yan~~~, ang @KIn6 but!hIn6 mgah v0SZ:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">humarap p0wh @k0w saH !ny0h n00wng AK1ng iNAgur@zYowN at z1naviNg J3jejejE: walANG Wang-wan6 Zu@H @T!Ng ♥ xD ♥ AdMinistraSyown l0Lz. aT ♥ xD ♥ nGaUn l0LZ, paTUlOy NuaT1Ng !tin!T!G1l I+0H. nAg!ng hudy@T At z@6IzaG poWh iT0H Ng PAgVabagOw J3jEJ3J3~~~, nd L@mang S@H Ku@lsUAD@h, KuNdEh P@T! n@H Rin ZaH ka!Zipan Zah Lipunan.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ZU@h Muat@G@L nah PanaHoWn j3J3Jej3 ♥♥♥♥♥, NuA6iN6 z!mbOWl0h Ng PANg-u@abuz0h ang wang-wang JejeJEje~~~. DAt3h, Kung m@KAP@G-c0uN+3RfL0ww an6 mgaH OP1Zy@L ng ♥ xD ♥ pamaHaLAan lolz, PAraH v@ng 0wr@Z lan6 niLah Ang mAHAl@gaH. 1MBes n@h ♥ xD ♥ maGl!n6koWd-vAyan L0Lz, p@rah bAnG ZiL@h anG nAgiNG h@RI nG ♥ xD ♥ Bu@YAN l0Lz. kung MAKaaztuah @NG k@niLaNG m6ah pAdR!Noh’t @l1POWrEz J3jej3j3zzSSzz, aKu@l@H Moh’y kuNg cNun6 m@harlik@H Kung huM@weH ng k@lzAdah; W@l@NG p@kiALu@m z@h mgUaH nuaP!p!Li+@Ng tUmAb3h at n@pa6-I1w@NAN J3Jej3je. ANg Mgah D@p@t NagLilinGKOd aN6 Z1Y@h paN6 naNg-uaapi jeJ3jeje ♥♥♥♥♥. anG PAnlAlaM@nG mATapoz m@ngaKonG Ma6L!n6k0Wd—1Y@N powH @ng Utak wuAnG-WAng.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">W@lAH sil@Ng KAru@PA+u@NG gAw1n ♥ xD ♥ it0W l0Lz. Ay0n S@H BAtAZ jEjej3JE ♥♥♥♥♥, tAnG!ng Ang ♥ xD ♥ Pr3z!DeNte PoWZ, BizE ♥ xD ♥ Pres!DEnTe LoLz, s3n8 prEZident J3J3Jej3, hous3 Spe@ker ♥♥♥♥♥, CH1ef jUSt!Ce P0Wz ♥♥♥♥♥, PuL!z~~~, bumB3roH, At @mBuL@nSyAh laNG anG @wTor1su@dong gumUaMiT n6 WangwuANG p@raH SaH K@niLuang Mguah oWpiZy@l NUaH laK@D j3jEjEje. KUN6 zaH TrapiK0h nGah ay ‘deH m@sun0wD ang bATas P0wzSZSszZ, Pa@nOWH puah kayah zAh Mg@h bAgaEh n@h mas maL@key ang MakUKuH@H, tulad ng ZAh mgu@h prowyekt0nG p1N0p0wnd0hUAn ng kav@n n6 bayU@N?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kay0h PoWh vah GUztOWh N!ny0wng MuaKULONg ANg lah@t nG Tiw@L1 ♥♥♥♥♥? Aq rin powh p0Wz~~~. gUsT0H Vuah ninyOWng mataNg6al @Ng wANg-W@ng poWZ, Nd lam@n6 zaH kuaLzaDah, KuNd3H s@H ka!sIp@nG n@GdUlot ng valuKtOt n@h sist3Mu@h n@h p@GK@+@G@L-taG@L n@H nat!N6 p1nuag+!Is@n Powz? @q R!n p0Wz. GustOwh p0W bAh niNyOnG Mu@b!6yan Ng P@t@S n@H pagkAKua+UaOn @Ng L@hua+ nu@H UM@Z3nZoH? ziY3Mpr3 M3 r!n P0wh.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">N@rit0H powH Ang H@lImbaw@h Ng r3sul+Uah ng atIng K@MPanyaH Kontruah W@Ng-wAnG ZAH S!StEm@H. nitowng tAong It0wh, tauMvAyan n@h M!Sm0h AnG na6zab1nG nAB@WazAN ang n@6uGut0m zAH kAN!laH. MUl@h SUaH 20.5 p3RCenT n@h SelF-R8ted hUnger n0Ong m@rzoh, BUm@buah Nah 1toh s@h 15.1 pERcEnT n!T0Ng huny0w ♥♥♥♥♥, kUa+umbaS ng !zAng m!lYoNg PamiLyang piliPiN0nG nua6uGUtoM Du@t3h, PErOh ngaun @3y nAkaKaKaIn nah naNg T@maH k@d@h Aru@w.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ZAH luar@Ng@n p0wh ng NegosyOwh, SIn0w Vu@h ANg NAG-uAK@laN6 P!t0nG ul!t na+!nG maLalamp@SaN an6 aLl-time-hiGH ng zt0Ck mUARK3T jejEJ3je? Ang duAtinG 4,000 inDex nAH iNau@kAlANg nd M@aav0T P0Wz ♥♥♥♥♥, OWh Kung mu@ABoT m@N ay Pans@m@ntalAh lANg, ng@un~~~, PANgKar@N!WaN N@ng H1n!higitAN.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">kuNG duATey nuaP@koh N@h an6 BAnsuah sah muav@b@Ng cred1T rat!N6s JejeJ3j3 ♥♥♥♥♥, 1tin@AS ng moOdeH’z JejEJ3j3, stAnDarD @nD p0wHORs, ♥ xD ♥ f!tch L0lz, @+ jAPan credit r@T1Ngs @G3ncy An6 atIng ♥ xD ♥ R@nkin6 lOlz, bIlAng pAgk!L@l@h saH aTinG Tamang P@g6ug0l n6 p0whnDoH @T Sah Mal!KH@In na+!ng ♥ xD ♥ panan@L@p! l0lz. @ng mU@tauaz NAh CRED!T ♥ xD ♥ ra+!ng p0wz, m@gpaP@vAV@H ng !N+3reZ SaH perANG inUutu@ng ♥ xD ♥ N@TIn p0wz. kumpAraH s@h unAng @PUAT N@H VUw@N ng nuak@rA@n6 ta0wn jejejeje~~~, m@s maL@k! p0wH nG 23 B!ll!oWn PEzoZ aNg naTipid n@T1nG !nt3Rest PUaYMEntz Mul@h en3R0w H@NG6@ng ABRil ng 2011 JeJEjEj3~~~. mAaar3y n@H pOwh n1t0wn6 z@6ut!N an6 D@laWang mIly0Wn aT tatlonGdaAn l!boWng BEnepiZy@rYoW nG CcT h@n6G@ng saH k@taPusan ng 2011.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">pauAlalah Me Lan6 p0Wh J3jEJ3J3~~~, SaH Siyam aT KALUAhU@t!ng ta0N vag0w TaYOh mAItal@gAH saH pUw3sTOh, iIS@N6 B3zEz lAnG TaY0Ng NakAtiKIM n6 ruAtINgs upgraD3 jeJ3jEjeZZSsZZ, at aN1m nah b3sez puAn6 nuAh-dowNgr@de nG 1b@h’+ Iv@NG r@+1Ngz ♥ xD ♥ Ag3ncy Powz. Z@h !suang ta0wn Pah Lan6 p0wh ♥ xD ♥ nAt1N lolz, ap@T nah BeSeS n@h Tuay0ng N@bIgy@N Ng ♥ xD ♥ UpGraDE LoLZ. @lam namaN p0W nAt1N nah Nd MadALing mAh-uPgrU@d3 ZuaH panah0wN n6u@y0Wn jeJejEj3. itowNg mg@h ratings agenCY j3Jej3jEzssZzz, n@vaT!kOs nAh maLey R@w @NG paY0WH va60W muagKakr!sIz zu@h @MERiKah, Kayu@h nGaun AEh MaZ mAkuna+ naH sIl@h zAH pAgBIB!gu@3H Ng MUAgag@ND@Ng RAT1n6s jEj3jeJe ♥♥♥♥♥, @+ NAK1K1tah ngah nAtiN ItOwh sAh ZUnud-Zun0wd nah P@g-d0WnGrade s@h IBANg mG@h BAnzAH. p3r0W TUaY0w p0WsZzsZz, in-uP6r@dE P@h n!lAh. zANG-ay0n ZilaNG Lah@T j3jeJejE ♥♥♥♥♥: gum@ndah aT LALOh pAng guagANdah aNg EkOwn0wm!YAH ng ♥ xD ♥ piLipinaz lOlZ. !zaN6 H@kb@nG n@h l@ng p0WhsSSzZz, AAB0wT nAH RAW tay0w sAH iNv3Stm3Nt Grad3 J3j3JeJ3 ♥♥♥♥♥, a+ walah pOwhNg tiG!l aN6 at!ng eC0N0M!c team Up@ng TuluyaN naH TaY0Ng MUakaaruaNGk@Dah.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">at May MaVuBU+In6 Bal!tuah pah POwng Para+!Ng jejeJejE~~~. DU@h!l wALUAh nang waNg-WanG z@h D03 Jej3j3j3~~~, MuliNg N@vuhay Ang kUmpiyanZuah nG mG@h n@mUMuHunAN sAh at!ng en3rgeh ♥ xD ♥ zeCtor L0lz. PAtun@Y H1r anG 1Z@ndua@n aT aP@TnaPUNg KuMpaNyUaH nah nakuAhaNdaNg tum@yaH Sah EKspL0R@sy0n @t pa6pApUaL@k@s ng @T1nG 0il At N@tur@L gas r3zoURCES. Z@h hUlinG energy C0Wntr@ct!ng r0und N00wNG ♥ xD ♥ 2006 loLz, tatlumpu’t LImah L@Ng p0wh @ng naK!lAH0K jeJ3jEj3. NItoWng b1yeRNeS lAM@n6 p0W j3jEj3j3 ♥♥♥♥♥, n!LAgDAAN NAH Ang p@nib@gOng kaZundu@n par@h zah Iz@nG v@GOwnG pOwhwer Plant zah luzoN gr!D UPan6 PagdaT!Ng nG ♥ xD ♥ 2014 lolz, May m@z muRah aT mAS muAAu@S@hang pagmUmul@N Ng enerhiy@H @nG vanZ@h.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">mAy kumpIy@NsaH, m@ey PaG-uAzaH, AT t1nutUpUAd POw NAtIn @nG At!n6 mg@h pAng@k0H. nAuAalAlu@H M3 NgAh powH Ang bab@3nG NAK@Usap kow nuang aQ’y Un@ng Na6Hah-hOuZe-tOW H0usE c@Mp@iGn puaR@h S@h @kIn p0wNG suarILeh. anG KaN1yU@Ng H!nAiN6 j3jeJej3~~~: “mIzkeh cNU n@maN An6 m@NAl0H, d00dz-pArEhoh luAn6 aNg ♥ xD ♥ kAhih!nuATnan lolZ. mUah!R@P aq no0N6 z!luah @y N@NGANg@Mpu@NyAh; M@hiraP @Q h@v@ng N@k@uP0H S1lah, @t MALUamUaNg mah1R@p p@h rin AK0w PaG naGR3t!R0w n@h Z1L@h. j3j3jeje~~~” sah madaling s@litah, Ang hin@!nG P0W ng m@raMeh, “WAL@Ng pAk!ALam @NG Mg@H pInUNOW naM!n kaH@p0nzssSzZ, wAlAH z1laNg pakiualAm nGay0wNsSsszz. VUk@z powz, walah pu@H riN s!luAnG P@k!ALAM.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">naK!k!tuAH nU@MaN pOw NiNy0Ng n@puPuNtAh nAh Sah TaMAH Ang bUw!s n!ny0w jejeJ3Je, ku@y@h wal@h NuAh Powng dAH!l@N uPaNG IWAsan NAtIN aNG ♥ xD ♥ P@GB@B@yAd P0Wz. nAn@n@Wa6An p0wh aq S@H inYoh: nd l@Ng powh g0wByern0W P0wzssszzz, KunD! kaPwah NuAtIn P!lipIn0wh ang p!N@gkaKA1t@n Zu@H nd paGVavayAd ng TamAn6 BUw!Z.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">K@y@h N@!sip nilANg eH-ch0p-cH0wp ANg pr0yEK+oH p@raH di lUm@MPuaS Sah 50 Million peZ0z Ang h@laGu@h, at di N@h Um@v0W+ ZaH rE6ion@l a+ cen+ral OwffiC3 anG KANiLAng mGUaH P@pelEz j3JEJejE~~~. Kaney-kaniyAnG DISkAr+e Jej3jeJ3 ♥♥♥♥♥, KAN3h-kaNIy@ng kahAr!@N anG n@d@TnAn n@tIn6 zi+uW@ZY0n zaH DPwH powZzZzzzz. cnuBukan N1lan6 !PAgpaTULOy ang N@k@zaNayuan nuAh N!lAH. ♥ xD ♥ kuadal@zan POwz, dah1l Z@h lUmP-Zum nah p@6vIvigAEy NG powHnDoH, w@laH nan6 TanUnG-+aN0ng kun6 anow @ng pLaN0wH @T deTalYe nG pRoWYEkT0wh. misk3h YaTaH—sUAbeh n6 !B@h—bu@huaeh ng GuAgamBah anG ipAp@tu@y0h, bIb16yAN N6 pownDOH, vAztu@h Ma3y paDrinoH.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">h1ND! laNg p0wh 1YAN Zah R3g!0n 4v N@diskuBre. NgUnIT N@tIG1l nah p0W ItoH duAH1l nd nAH paDR!n0h KundI tAmang Pr0Z3z0H @Ng nu@gj3JeReH SAh ♥ xD ♥ dPWh poWz. nd nuah PuwEd3ng waLaN6 WOrk PR06rUAm~~~; KA1languan6 m@GPAki+@h NG piNag-IZipUAng pl@n0w p@RaH ND m@gk@suaLuNg@t an6 pagz@zaGaWuah NG M6aH proYEkt0H. mu@l!niZ @+ hay@G nah @n6 ♥ xD ♥ bidD!ng L0Lz, @+ P@nt@Y nah aN6 Pa6kUAK@t@0Wn zu@h pAgpuaz0k Ng m6ah kOWNTrAtiSt@h.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">at nd p0w buWenu@z lan6 aNG nangY@ring Pag-aN6At n6 a+!ng ricE pR0DUctIVIty ♥♥♥♥♥. bunGaH Powh Itoh NG MaTin0Ng pAmamALakad JeJeJej3 ♥♥♥♥♥: ng PAggam!T ng mAi!n@m nah kluAsE Ng bInHEh, at m@zuS! @t ep3Kt1v0WNg PagGuASt0wS PU@raH z@h ♥ xD ♥ Ir1g@zyown lOlz. n1t0wH ngAH P0wHnG n@k@raUang taOn jej3JEjE~~~, l@b1ng-iZang L1boh, AnIm nAh rauAn At lab1NG-iz@N6 bAgoWng ektAryuAh n6 bUK1Rin ang nUaPuatUbIg@n n@tin j3JEJEjE. dagDA6 p@h iYAn S@h haloWs DalAwAnd@an at l@BINDualU@wang l1bOn6 ekt@RYah nAh NAkumpunEH oWH n@b!gY@n6 mul! nG IR!6@zy0wN m@tUaP0z aNG pAnAhon ng p@GkakaTiWangwaNg j3jejeJEZszzZz. aNG reSulTah: uM@Ng@t n6 15.6 perc3NT Ang iNaney natIn6 paLAeY noowNG nu@kaR@UANG ta0wn.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">an6 gUStOw NatINg mangyareY: uNaH, nD t@yoH aangka+ Ng Nd K@1L@NgaN, ParaH l@Ng pUNaN ang bulzah ng mgAH GuztoNG ma6s@riL!n6-dizk@r+3 nG kitAh Sah AGRIkuLtur@h. !kUalawAh: ayaW Nah nAtinG UMAZAh saH p@6-aNGk@tszsszz; Ang !zAzUa!ng nEH JUan delah crUZ POwz, ditow IpupUNlUah, D!+0h ♥ xD ♥ @ANih!n LoLz, hir v!b!LHiN.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">kAy@h AnG ip!N@NgAkow nat1Ng zOWLUzY0wN PavaHA3H nit0ng ♥ xD ♥ pEVR3R0w lOLz, ngayownG hulyoh @eh tinutupad Nah. N@K@pag-abO+ naH poWh t@yoh ng Ap@+ nuAH l1B0wng c3RtifIc8 Of enTitl3M3nt 2 LoT @lL0wCuaT!on SAh MUa6igiT1n6 NA+!nG Kuaw@L at ♥ xD ♥ pulIz loLz. bu@huAg3h pu@h lAnG p0Wh !t0W NG t@rG3t Nat!NG kAbuu@NG Dalawampu’T !zAng lIb0H aT waloWn6 dAANg baHuay SAh P@gtA+@poS ng tua0wn6 !TowH. ang dat!Ng @pu@+ NaH l1bOn6 1binAbAYAd pU@rUAh s@h Upah k@dAh ♥ xD ♥ vuw@N L0LZ, nG@YOWn jEJeJeje~~~, dAl@wAnd@uAng pizow n@h ♥ xD ♥ l@ng lolZ, p@r@h P@H ZuAh VaH@Y Nah puAGmaMu@y-Ar3h Tal@G@H NilAh. anG dUatInG nUalAlaGuas n@h halAgAH Nah p@mv@yU@d zAh buwanan6 reNtah, MaaarI n@ng 1gugol P@raH s@h ivaNG gAs+usin.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">M@yrOowN pAh rAw p0Whng maHigiT 1zU@Ng libong Bu@h@eH nAh n@+It1r@h, Kayah p0wh s@H mGaH puLiZ At zuNdU@l0wH nA+in6 DeH Pah NuakUakUapA6pazAH ng ku@n!l@ng Mguah papeLez ♥♥♥♥♥, lASt cu@ll nu@h pOWH pARAh zuah V@TCH nU@h IT0W JeJejEj3~~~. p3RoW HuW@G p0Wh KaY0ng m@g-aLaLah, Z@h Zuzunod nAh TA0N jEj3j3j3, lAlUAwaK paH aNg at1ng ♥ xD ♥ PaB@h@y LoLZ, @T ND lanG pUliz @T kAWuaL ZaH LuzOn ANg MU@K1k!n@vang p0Wz~~~. !nij3j3NduaH NuAh ng nHaH ang lUpAng patAtayUuAN zaH v1zayAS @+ mInDUAnAowH, p@R@h zaH zuzUn0wd nuah ♥ xD ♥ TaON l0lz, mUAKapua6PatAYoH Nah t@Yoh ng Mg@h V@Haeh dO0Wn jej3jeje. zAH aT!Ng mGAH kuaWaNeH Ng vuRE@U 0f ja!L MuanAgemENt and P3nologY At vUr3Au 0wf F1rE pr0wtec+!owN JEjEjej3 ♥♥♥♥♥, m@eh g00d NHeWs p@h r!n p0W aq z@H ♥ xD ♥ InYow LolZ: K@SUam@h Nah p0w kuAy0H rit0w.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kun6 seGuR!DUAd Nah r!N LU@nG pOw @Ng aTINg ♥ xD ♥ pag-UUzU@pan powZ, d3Y B@h’T k@rug+0wn6 d!n n!+Ow @N6 A+!NG PUAMBuAnsAng ♥ xD ♥ DAn6al lOlZ? duateh, nd mAn lu@Ng NATiN mU@KUHANG pum@lUAg tUWiNg m@y s!sIndak zah @tin sah l00wb mizMoh ng ating bAKuRan~~~. mal!n@w @ng pu@hiwUatig NUA+!n n6aY0wn sAh Vuon6 MUnD0h: ang zUah PIl1p!NAz ay ZAh pIlIp!Nas ♥♥♥♥♥; K@paG tumapUaK KAh ZuAh rECToh ♥ xD ♥ vanK P0Wz, PAr@h K@H naH riNg tumUap@k su@h Rect0h avenue.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">+am@H Ngu@h Powh kaY@h an6 Kuw3N+oh tun6k0l SU@h !S@ng stAnd-0WfF nO0wNG ARAw j3jej3Je ♥♥♥♥♥? T!napAtan d@w @nG MG@H mu@r!nowh nU@tIn nG K@ny0n. @ng gInuawUAh nIlah noOnG 6@beH, pumut0l Ng PuN0h nG nIyowg jejejEje~~~, pIn!ntuRu@h@n itow Ng 1T1m j3jejej3 ♥♥♥♥♥, ZAKah it1NuTOk Zah k@LuaB@nzSssZZ. t@poz NuaH Powh AnG pAnuAHong iyan. ParuAt!NG NAH @ng MGuaH c@PABiliTY Up6r@de @t m0dErN!z@ti0n ng mgu@h kAgU@m!t@N nG @t!nG zanDUAtAh@ng lAKAZ powz. L!ter@l n@h p0WHng naglalakb@ey Su@H Kar@gaTaN puapUNtaH rIToh AnG KaunuaH-un@h@n natIng h@milTon ClAsz cutter~~~, 1Z@NG mas mOdernOng b@Rkoh nAH m@gaGamiT Nat1n pUarAH mav@N+U@yan @NG @t!n6 mguAH B@yb@yin pOwZ~~~. Maaareh PaH p0wH tayowng MAKaKuHu@H ng mg@h VArk0ng tuLad n1tOW. idAd@gd@g iyan su@h KuKUNIn nAH Nat!n6 MgAh hel1COPteR (PlUrAL pOwH iY0wN) p0Wz, pAtrOwl ♥ xD ♥ CRaFT l0Lz, aT Zand@TAH naH VULT0ng ViB!Lhin nG afp poWz~~~, pnp J3j3jeJ3~~~, Kaz@M@H nUAH aN6 D0j uPaNG m@k@kuh@h Ng mal@kINg d1skuWeNt0h. luahaT p0Wh ♥ xD ♥ 1tow poWz, M@kAKaMtuaN zuaH MuatInonG P@MU@maH@LAH; mu@b!B!L! SAh tuAMang preSy0Wh, n@ng w@laN6 KuaIL@n6@n6 1padUl@s kUNg kaN1-kanin0h.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">wAlah t@yOwn6 bALAk maNg-@wu@eY, PEr0h K@ILaNgaN D!Ng MabAtid nG MUndoW nah hanDaH t@y0ng 1pagtuAN6g0l an6 @t!n pOwZ. pinAG-@aR@l@N Nah rIn powh nUaT!N @ng paG-ANGuat ng K@soH zUah WESt pHil1Pp!nE Ze@h Zah !NTernATiON@l tRibunUal F0r The L@w 0Wf Th3 s3AH, upan6 Maz!gur0nG Zah m6@h suzUnod nAh pu@Gkak@tAowN a3h hinAhown A+ PaGtIt!mpeH @ng maGjej3r3h tUW!N6 mUAy @lItAn Z@h t3R!t0Ryow.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ual@M KOw poWhn6 MuagbuBUNgAH ang pAG-@@ruGaNG ipiNuapaM@lAs Natin z@h mgAh lIN6kOd-bayan nah nUak@tut0k sah At1nG segUridU@d ♥♥♥♥♥. M@Ntuak1N p0w N!NyOWh: Su@H uN@NG anim Nah buWu@N n6 2010 powZ ♥♥♥♥♥, UMaV0t ZuaH 1S@NlIb0wh at s@mpun6 kots3 At m0t0rsiKl0wh An6 naNAk@w JeJejEjessSsZz. !kUmp@r@h POw nu@T!n 1yUan sah ApA+NarAAN at animn@pung Kow+se at mOW+orzIklOwnG n@N@K@W mul@h 3NeR0h hangGANg HuNy0h Ng TAong !t0H. Ang Lak! p0WH ng n@1bawAS Di POwh b@h? mALaz mE LU@ng P0WH Si6uroH naH ‘yung isaH 0wH d@l@WUaN6 kUAs0w nG cUarnAPping AnG na3Y-j3jEadline, @T nD AnG p@6bU@wUAZ sAh MgaH insiden+3 ni+0H 0h aNg mAS m@tu@u@s n@h powHrzy3Nt0w ng mg@h nanakaW NaH kowtZ3 nah n@!baLIk naH SUAH kaNilAnG Mgu@h muAeH-uAr1.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">iZaH puaH powhnG h@L1mVUAwUaH ng PagBabag0ng t1n@taMazAH n@T!nzZZzZZ: M@Y0h Ng Tuaong 2003 nan6 lagDAaN anG anteH-+r@ff1ck!n6 1n pERZOwns ♥ xD ♥ AcT L0Lz, p3row d@h1L nd s1N3ryoZOh ng 3stadoh @ng paGpuaPaTup@d nI+0h, DUal@wu@mpu’+ s!yam N@H ind!b1DUwuAL laMAN6 anG nah@tuL@n zAH l0owB Ng p!t0wnG TA0Wn Jejejeje ♥♥♥♥♥. n@lagpUAz@n nAh P0Wh nAtIn iYan P0wZ~~~, dAH1l uMabot nUah ZAh t@Tlumpu’t isan6 HuMAn tR@ffick3rS @n6 n@h@tuLaN zAh atIng adminIzTR@sy0NszzZzZ. 1t0wh N6@h PoWh zigur0wh ang sinazav1Ng “s3ah changE pOWZ~~~” nI s3cretarY 0F Zt8Te HIll@rY cl1NtowN ng Amer1kah. daH!L H!r~~~, n@T@nGGu@l n@h t@YoW zah ti3r 2 WaTchl!Z+ nG Tr@ff!cKing in pers0nz rep0Wr+ nIl@H. kunG Nd T@yoH Nat@nggal sah WatChlisT naH !t0wh, SIguRu@d0n6 nu@pURnadaH paH ang m6u@H grAnt NaH Ma@ari n@T!ng M@kuH@h muLAh zah mIllEn!Um chuaLL3Nge C0WrPORA+!on @T !v@h p@h.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">duMak0h pOwh tAy0h sah TRaBaH0wH. D@gdua6-+r@BAh0wh aN6 uNu@Ng panat@h n@+iN zAh piLIpInoh. aNg 8 p3RCen+ Nuah Un3Mpl0wym3Nt r8TE nOong avrIL ng N@kUARaaNg ♥ xD ♥ t@on l0lz, naivAb@h nah ZAh 7.2 PerCenT NiTon6 @vril N6 ♥ xD ♥ 2011 L0lz. t@nD@aN POwh NatIn p0Wz~~~: m0V1N6 target aNG NASu@H h@n@y n6 A+!nG unEMpLOYEd jejejEJE~~~, d@hil taun-tu@0wn Ay m@y MGAH Vag0nG gR@dU8 NU@h nu@GJEjenAP ng TRAbah0w~~~. nit0wh Ng@h p0whng HuLing t@own~~~, NAduAgDaG pah zuAh B!Lu@ng nIlah @ng LIbu-lIvOn6 HAw3y boyZ ♥♥♥♥♥, tU@gu@saB!t n6 ♥ xD ♥ vUand3riT@s loLz, @T Iv@h p@Ng mgaH p1L!PiNong kUMuHUah NG p@nzUaMANTalang kUAbUhayu@n mulU@h sAh ♥ xD ♥ eLEKzY0n l0Lz. @Ng rezul+uAh p0wh ♥ xD ♥ n@TIn l0lZ: !zAng M1LyON @t @pu@TN@RA@NG lIbOn6 Trav@h0wnG N@liKHah n!t0WNg nAKaraU@n6 tuaOn JejEjEje~~~, na6t@taPoZ poWH N6 avril.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">dati jEJeJeje ♥♥♥♥♥, nak@paKOW sah PAn6iNgIb@nG-VAnz@h ang amvizyon Ng MguAH p1L1P!NOW ♥♥♥♥♥. nG@yOwN JEj3jeJe ♥♥♥♥♥, may pa6piP!Li@n nah ziyanG truaVah0H, aT hu@NgGah’t t!N@+aPaTu@N n!yah Ng z!P@6 @t d3TeRm!n@zYoN ang kanYaNg panG@ngaRap, tiyak Nah ma@@v0wt n!yAh !+ow.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mal@keH p@H pOWh ang PuweDEn6 mAdagdag sAH tR@v@HOng nalILikhU@H zAh at!Ng vANzAh. ay0n pUAh lAn6 p0W s@h WeBSIte N@T!Ng ♥ xD ♥ PHilJOvNet l0lz, M@eh liMampuNg l1b0ng TrABahOwNG nD NapuPun@n ♥♥♥♥♥, ♥ xD ♥ NapupUnUUAn PoWZ, kuaDU@H VuwaN dahil nd TugmaH ang k@1l@n6@n ng m6u@h KuMP@nYah su@h kAk@YaHan at ka@lu@MAN nG mgAH n@GjejEnap N6 ♥ xD ♥ trABUah0w loLz. nD p0W n@+In jej3y@uAnG m@ZUAYAng ANg p@gKAKaT@0ng !towh; ngaUn pah l@Ng j3J3JejE ♥♥♥♥♥, nuaGt@+@gPoW n@H @NG K@1sipan Ng d0lE jejEJej3~~~, ♥ xD ♥ Ch3D Lolz, tEzdaH, @t D3P3D up@ng tuGun@n @N6 isyu nG jOv m!zmAtCh J3jejejE~~~. SusuR!!N ang mgu@h Curr1cuLUm p@rah muai+u0n z@h mGUah INduZtriyan6 nagJejEnAp ng 3mpLEyu@d0wh, at g@g@bAyU@n an6 mg@H 3StUdy@nTe ZAh P@gP!li ng MGu@H KurZoNg h!T!k s@h b@KanTen6 Tr@v@h0h.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">nGuN1+ @ANh1N n@m@n p0w N@t!n @n6 MgaH numer0nG NaGHuHudyaT nG paG-as3NSoWh Ng ♥ xD ♥ Iilan L0lz, kuNg maRaMI paH riN @ng n@pa6-!IwuAnAn P0WZ ♥♥♥♥♥? @ng un@ng hAkv@n6szZszz: TInuKoeH naT!n ang Towt00ng NAnGaN6a1luaNG@nszSzzZ; naMuhunuan tAyOw s@h p1nu@Kam@halAgAh n@tIng YAm@N j3jEJEJ3: aNg TauMBuaYaN jeJEjeJE ♥♥♥♥♥. z@h dAlAw@ng m!lyoNG p@m!LYanG Reh!zTrUAd0H sUah at!NG P@ntawid PamilyAn6 p!L!p!n0H ♥ xD ♥ Pr0grAM lolZ, !s@ng M!ly0wN @t an!mnaR@aNG l!voWh nah @N6 nAkAKu@tanggap ng bENeP!zYoh ♥ xD ♥ n!t0w l0Lz. s@H pAGpaPak!t@nG-G!lAz NEh seCretaREh D1NkY zowlimAN p0Wz~~~, t!NatayuAnG m@3h muAhig!t Iz@ndaAnG L!b0N6 P@mily@h—uulITIn m3 Powh P0wz: mah!giT !SandaaNg l!vOwN6 PamIlyAH ang n@!a@Hon nAt!N mUlaH Zuah kah!R@paN kAdAh buwAn JeJEj3JEZzsSZz. kAy@h nAMaN M@t@@s @Ng ak!ng Kump!yanZANg makuKumplEToh anG 1.3 M!llI0n nu@h dAGdag n@H pam!LYah, muLah ZaH kabuuAnG 2.3 M1Lyong t@rG3t n@h v3nEpizY@rY0H Ng cct b@g0w ma+ApOs @Ng ta0ng !Toh. At Zah Compli@nCE r8 n!t0h naH ND bAVaBuaH s@h 92 pErcENt pOWz, MIlyUn-m!ly0wn nAh R!n pow @Ng !Nang rEGuLAr N@h NA6papacHeCk-Up zu@H mgUah healTH Cen+3r, an6 MguAh z@nGGol nU@h ♥ xD ♥ N@p@BuaKun@H@N lolZ, @T aNG MGah Bat@ng nD H1nuaHayaU@N s@h luAb@s N6 PAuaR@lAn.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">z!mulAh puAh lUang PowH !T0h, @T S@H GAnitOng kalinaw naH MgAh R3sUL+uah, umuauAzah akow sAH suPoRTaH nG bawAT P!l1Pinoh, Laloh n@h p0wH ng lehiZlatuRah, zaH munGkAhey nAt!ng sualINAN p@h ng PowHnd0wh @ng pant@w!d pam!Ly@Ng PilIP!n0h pRO6raM jejej3je ♥♥♥♥♥. iNUaaSaM P0Wh naTin naH Va60h MAtapos aNG 2012 ♥♥♥♥♥, tatL0nG m!LyONg pAmiLYah nah An6 mAVib1gy@N ng PuhuNaN p@r@h s@h kanIl@n6 KInU@VuKuaz@n.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">viniB16yaN na+in An6 mguAh MaRU@lit@Ng paMILyANg 1T0H n6 PAGKaK@+aoNG MAKAaHon zAh vuhU@eh, dAHil @nG P@G-AsensoW n1lUah @Y Pag-U@NgAt r!N ng vu0wnG VAnSaH. CNu @nG tA+uan6K1LiK sah Mg@h pRodukt0W @t zerb1ZYow ng MG@H neGoWsyanT3 JejeJ3j3~~~, kuNg iSUanG ♥ xD ♥ K@h!g l0lz, !z@ng tUk@H naman ang mAm!mileY? kApag m@ey @maNg kumAkap!t sah PaTAlim parah mAY K@!niN @nG K@Ny@ng p@m1ly@h, @T Ziyuah aY m@Gnu@KaW 0Wh nanghoLdUAp, cNu BuAH Ang puwedeNG Mav!Kt1mah ng kr!mEn kuNd3h T@Yoh rin JEj3jEj3~~~? kun6 anG mgAH kAbuaBaY@n n@tin A3h walANG maay0S Nah pAgK@in OH ♥ xD ♥ tAHUanan LOLz, m@hiNaH AN6 k@lUZuG@n @+ M@Y maLuvhang kuaramdamuaN jEjEJ3JE ♥♥♥♥♥, nd b@H’T TayOH R!n @Ng Nazah peligr0wn6 m@hAwAh sAh kaNilang Zak!t?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">NAGL@l@ta6 P0w tAyow N6 pA6bab@60Wh UP@Ng mapat!vay aNg pund@Zyon ng m@al!wal@S naH vUkU@z paR@h s@h l@h@t. hAlimvAWAH ♥ xD ♥ pow l0LZ, SAH kaluzU6An jEjejeJe~~~: d! vAh’T k@PU@nZIn-PanzIn Ang pUAGta@z ng b1laN6 Ng m6AH ben3PISY@rYoW ng pH!LhealTH tUWiNg mAgjej3lAlan ♥♥♥♥♥? nGaUN powZ ♥♥♥♥♥, Sah pamam@g!tan Ng n@tI0nAl HousEh0ld tuArge+In6 zystEm fOWR P0whVErtY ReDuCtI0n (NHTZ-pr)zSZzzz, Tin!YU@k N@+!n nuah ang l!mANG miLy0wn At D@l@WANd@ang Lib0Ng p@mIlYu@NG PiliPin0W nuaH nak!K1NAvuAng zah philheuAltH Ay AnG T@laganG mgaH NaNGu@n6a!lAng@n n1toh. mAL@wAkang pag-unlAD at PaG-Az3Nz0h ng l@hat jeJ3jEj3~~~: Iyu@N POwh @NG P@N@+ah n@tin. wal@ng ma1!Wan S@h tuW!d nAh landUaz.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">tumUng0wh n@M@n p0wH tayoH ZAh aRmm powz~~~. ang d@t1ng S!ST3m@H: NaGb@batUhan l@Ng NG HuwU@D Nah uTuang ng l0OwB anG mG@H bAlUkt0wt NAh k@nd1d@tOwh. KaPa6 PAmvanZan6 hALualu@N ♥♥♥♥♥, mALay@h ang naku@up0w S@h ArMm NAH imAne-0vru@H aNg mAkiN@ryAh Zu@h k@NiYang rehiy0WN p@Rah maTiy@k nah b0KYAh, OwH ♥ xD ♥ SER0W p0WZ, ang B0towh ng Nd ka@LyUAdOh. K@pag naman elekzyon Z@H armm at MU@n!ningIL NaH N6 UtUang s! MAy0r OH goV3rn0Wr P0wZ ♥♥♥♥♥, anG ADmin1stru@Sy0n NUaMAn @N6 M@Gpu@pataKbOh nG m@KinuarY@H PAr@h mUanal0h @ng kANiL@n6 kanD!daToh.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">@y0n Ng@H p0wh suAh NAun6KAt n6 coah, sah opisinaH nG r36iownaL 60vernor ng @rMm PowZ ♥♥♥♥♥, Mulah 3nEr0wh 2008 hANgg@N6 s3tYeMBRE 2009~~~, wu@LumPUNg—UULIt!N K0W PowH JEJ3J3j3: W@LUmPung poWRzYenTOH Ng mgUah d!SvUrs3mENt @NG Napun+@h sah mg@H cAzH advaNce n@H WaL@h nAmAnG maUay0s nAh ♥ xD ♥ p@liW@N@G powZ. kun6 nd nAW@L@H @Ng p0whnd0WNg ♥ xD ♥ !tow PoWz, NAKa+APOWs nu@h zaNAh @Ng !zAn6 bat@ng Sah NGAY0wn tuMaW!D Z@h GHOzT ♥ xD ♥ bRiDgE loLZ, PaRah pUmaz0wK Z@H gH0wsT ♥ xD ♥ sch00wl Lolz, kUNg zuAan tuTuruan Z!yah Ng ghoSt teUacHer~~~. kAU@wuah-awanG b@taH: waL@ng HumPaeY N@H PUagh1h!Rap~~~, AT w@L@n6 p@g-@zah ng p@6-UAseNZ0h.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">gUZtOh NuA+1n6 maRAnaSUan NG @RMM anG beNep!Sy0h ng t@maNg p@mAM@haLAh. kaYah @nG atin p0whNg m!nun6kah1ng s0wLUSy0nSzzSzZ: sYncHrOwNizatI0nSzzSzz. dahIL ditow jej3j3je ♥♥♥♥♥, kailangan Nil@nG tumuToK sAh kAn!-KAniLu@nG mGah KamPAnY@h; mA61gING m@S pAtuAs aNg laB@NAn, at L@LAbnaw aN6 cowmm@nd vOTes. zAlAma+ pow ZAH K0ngr3z0w A+ n@IPuaz@h N@h @ng vuat@S nAh m@gz@SABu@3h s@H h@lAL@n ng armm z@h H@luaLUaN6 PAmbanSah.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">may NaG+@T@n0Wng ♥ xD ♥ pOwh Lolz, buak!t P0wHZTPonemenT @ng ♥ xD ♥ ka1luANgAN l0lZ? zah KaGUztUhangzzzSzz, z!yAmprE P0wz ♥♥♥♥♥, mAK@baL!k zah PUw3Z+oH, nakaHAnDUaH @nG 1lUaN nah uLitIn @NG nak@gaWIAn paRAh man@l0W pOWz~~~. isIPin nah l@ng PowH niNyoW kung pUm@yuaG TU@y0h zaH KUagUStuhuan nG m6@H kOn+rah, @t itiNUlOy n@+!n aN6 3l3kzyon JEj3jejE. w@l@h powh zIlan6 1bAnG ga6awin sU@h looB nG daLuAw@nG TuAoN kundeH pAGHuAnDa@N ang zuSunowd naH halAL@n @T !SiksIk AnG kAl0Kohan n!l@h zah MaZ maiGs!Ng puaN@hON jEjEjej3 ♥♥♥♥♥. H@B@n6 N@n@Nat!L3Y zuAH pUwestOH aNG m6ah UtAk w@ng-wU@Ng NAh ♥ xD ♥ 0p!zYAL Lolz, n@11wan n@Man6 NakAluv0g zah kumUnoEY N6 kaw@l@Ng-pUaGuazAh ang Tu@Umvay@N.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WAL@h aqnG dUduah zUAH kaHihinaTnAn Ng mg@h rePoRM@ng 1N!LaTag N@h nUAt!n. ND poWh tu@yOwH NaGvubUkaMviB!g laNg ♥♥♥♥♥; M@y K0ngKreT0wNg R3zuLT@h @Ng at!nG mgaH pUaniNiNDiGan jEjEJEjEzzzzZz. k@pag z1NABi natIn6 tUwID naH da@n ♥♥♥♥♥, may Ka+@p@T I+0wN6 kals@d@h s@h baranGAeh b@guMbaY@n sah zt@H. mARIaH, LagUN@H. ‘PAg SIN@Beh natiNg mAl1N1z nAH p@M@maHalUah, Maeh dAdalOy NuaH M@L1niS nAh TubIg ZaH mgaH l1BlIv naH lUgaR G@y@h NG NAS@H vaRangaY p0WVLU@c10wn jEJejEje~~~, zah feRr0L JEjej3je, ♥ xD ♥ r0mBLOwn lOLz. kU@pag Z1NAb! n@t!ng LiwaN@G Ng p@gbabaG0h, T!+iyaKIN nuaT1ng may L!wuan@G nah tATANglu@W s@h MGaH paMayUanang DatI ay nanGan6UApah z@H a@nd@P-@ndap nah gASeruAh, 6AyuaH ng g!naWAh n@t!n Zah b@ru@NGay saN m@rcOwz jejejEjE, z@H vUn@waN jeJEjEjE, a6usan D3L ♥ xD ♥ Zur lolZ. gaNit0wh n@H anG naNgyuaYAREH zU@h M@R@Meh p@nG ivang Lug@r ♥♥♥♥♥; pInIP!Lit N@T!n6 !TOh rin AN6 mU@n6YaR! zah kUABuuu@n ng P1liPin@z.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">nAKatu+0k NAh p0Wh @ng Ibah’t !Ban6 @HeNSyAh N6 6owVyeRn0h; N@6-uUgn@Yan aT N@GtUTUlunGan zilAh upAng mAAv0wt At mApaV1l1z AN6 mG@h s0lusYon SuAh MGAh Pr0vlEmAn6 K@yTagal nang p!nApazan ng B@yAn.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">dEh P0wH B@H’t maey prObLemah taYOw sAh Bah@H, nAh Al@M n@maN nating DuLowT NG waLan6 HumP@3y @t il3G@L nah puA6PutoL ng MG@h PuNoh? anG D@+!ng SowLuZyonzzzSZZ: PhOWT0w-0p nG paGtaT@n!m nU@h @n6 TangING b3N3P!ZyuarY0Wh A3H nagpAPog!NG puL!tikoH. nagTuanim N6@h nG PunOwH konTrah-b@h@H, PerOw nd N@man s1n!6ur0wh NaH m@NanUaT!L1nG nu@k@tayow ANG mGah It0W P@6-U@l1S n!laH.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">!s@h z@H mgAH SolUzyong hiNU@HandAh nuAh PowH aT pIn@g-@@r@L@N aeh Ang 6AW!NG kaPaki-PaK!NABang sAh MGaH puamaYANan ang pa6b@VANtay ng pun0h. BiBIgYu@n ziLAh nG vinh3h NG kape at c@cAowH PaRAh !tUanIm @T MAmUnG@h nG kUAbUHAYAN. huAbAng h!nIhiNt@y @ng An3h, makAKakUhah S!LAH nG ST1PeNd up@ng banTayaN nam@N @Ng mgah pUnoNg itiNAn!M lu@bAn SAh Vahah. puweD3ng MuagInG BenEpiSYaRy0H NG pr0Gram@ng 1t0w ang Mgah !nF0rM@L z3TTleRz jeJ3jeJ3, N@h NgaYOwn ay nA6kukuMpulaN ZaH S!yudU@d JEjeJEje ♥♥♥♥♥. mamUmUhuN@N TayoWh sAH ♥ xD ♥ t@UMBayaN l0lz, HAbAN6 NUamumuHUNAn din zAh Kal1Kas@n.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">N00N bu@nG 1Zang ♥ xD ♥ Ta0n lOlz, inIs1p ku@yah N@+!N Nah Kay@h Natin6 gU@win I+OWH? zAH n6ay0n Jejej3JE, t1NUTUp@d N@h nAT!n anG at!ng mgAh pangaK0h. BuKaS M@kuaLAWaH, k@t0+0han@n nAh ang l@Ha+ Ng atiNg MgAh p!Nang@Rap.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">mAru@M3y pah poWHN6 MAL1khaiNg KOwnzeptOH n@h in!l@laPIT s@H A+iN ♥♥♥♥♥, at @ng @Tin P0wnG iPiNu@+uPuad Nah. ma3h M0sQuit0wh tRAp NAH PINaPAtay aNg Mg@h Kit1-Kiti Ng l@MOK~~~, Nah si6uR0h nAm@N P0Wh Ay maeY K!naLaMAn Sah haLos lAviNg-apa+ n@H p0whrz!yEnt0nG pAgBaVah Ng !ns1d3nte NG dEn6UE p0wz~~~; may hibLAH ng N!y0Wg N@h !tatU@PowN NaH z@nAh, per0wH PuW3de pALaNg murAng S0luzY0N zu@h mgAh Daan@n6 m@Du@l!Ng ♥ xD ♥ mU@bit@k l0lz; MA3y lAnDzl1de s3nsOr Nuah M@6Vab@Bu@LaH kun6 tuma@z nah @nG pan6an!B NaH GumUh0w ANg luP@h; may MguaH Kagam!tuAng MuagbIbIg@y nG SenYal3z kuNG maluaPiT NAn6 umaPaw ang tub!G zAH mG@h ilog JejejeJe ♥♥♥♥♥. luAhUat powH n!t0h, gawah ng p1l!P!NoWh.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">p!NaG-A@raL@n nAh Rin p0Wh NG d0zT @T Up anG pu@gkAkar0on nAtIn n6 moN0rail zYs+em ♥♥♥♥♥, PaR@H tUgUNan ang Pr0blemUAH S@H puanGmuaLAwAkAng truAnsportUaZyonZZzsZz. sah MAl1kha1n6 pu@G-iIziP NG k@pWAh ♥ xD ♥ p!l!p1NoW l0lz, M@eh p@G-@saH PalAH TaYowNg MagtAy0H NG Lyt rAiL syZteM nang Nd h!h!gIt saH 100 m!lLi0WN p3SOs An6 gaGAstus!n kAdAh k!l0MEtr0wh. zAH M@+1tipiD n@H P0whNDoh, m@z mAh@vAnG kiL0meTr0w n6 R1l3s ANg mAilaLuAtAg aT mAkAk@H-aboW+ zah mGuAh LugUar n@H malay0H saH s3n+roh Ng ♥ xD ♥ k0MeRSY0w LoLz. anG Mgu@H dat!n6 zum!zIks!k SUah siyudaD Pu@raH ma6hAnap ng trabuaH0H, MUa@uareY n@ng tUM!r@H Sah maDy0H m@Z MaL@yowh, n@ng nd paH!RAPan anG b1y@He.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">uULiT!n M3 P0wH POwzzzZszz: @nG MuNgkaH!n6 !toh @y G@liNg sah k@pW@h nat!n P!LIP!n0h, puaR@H sAH ♥ xD ♥ piLipin@s Powz. n@@AlalUAh P0w bAh n!NyOW ANg PUAn@h0wN KUNG Ku@ilan nI nd mAN lAng mau@B0T nG mG@H p@nGuAruaP n@tIN an6 g@N1ToNg MGah PR0YektoWSSSZzZ? nGaYOwn ♥♥♥♥♥, Zinas@V3h Me P0w ZaH Iny0h: piNaPANg@Ruap nUaTIn IT0H, K@yaH nu@t!n it0h, gagUAwIN natIn !ToW J3jeJEje. nd vu@H tAy0w ♥ xD ♥ naGAGu@lu@K l0Lz, pIL!PiNOh taYoNG nabUbuHuA3y sah MGAh paN@h0Ng !towH?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sah kaViLUaH Ng l@haT NG ♥ xD ♥ 1tow lOlZ, huw@G p0Wh zaNuaH naTINg l!L!muT1N: maz@sAYaNg Lang aNg lAHat ng @+!nG NaratIng Kung nd tuLUyan6 M@iWaWAKz3y @Ng kULtURah Ng korUPSyOn nah D1nATNaN N@T1N.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">saH M6@H kApwah M3 EMpleyAdoh Ng ♥ xD ♥ zamvuay@nan lolz, muL@h sah tUKtowK HAn6gaN6 SAh b@wAT zulowk nG bUrukrazyUAH: d3h P0wh v@H’T nAP@KarAngal naH ngAY0wN ang mua6TRuabAh0h Sah ♥ xD ♥ GoVyeRnoW loLZ? d1 PowH baH’+ ♥ xD ♥ N6@yon lOLZ, zah h@l1p N@h IKahiy@h, 6usT0wh mOwH paNg iSuOt kung M1Ns@N an6 !Y0wng 1d kuNg sum@SaK@y kuah nG Buz oh jE3p pApaSowk su@H iy0N6 aheNsYAh? ZAsaY@NgiN p0Wh bAh Na+In @ng K@raNguAl@NG kUaL0ov zuah AT!n nG zaMb@Y@N@n?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">iy@n dIn pOW @ng @King P@nAwU@gAn zaH aT1ng LocuAl g0wv3rnmenT uNitS jEjEjeJe. KabiL@ng p0wh akOw zah MGah zumasang-@y0N n@H kAyow an6 Pin@kuah-nakakaalam zAh p@ngangA1laNgaN nG t@UmB@Y@N z@H 1Ny0n6 mGUah LunGS0d a+ muniS!PyOw J3jEjEJe~~~. makaKu@Azu@h p0W @ng at!NG Mg@H LGu sAH h!6iT nuaH kAlAyaU@N @t kuak@Y@HuaN jeJeJ3je ♥♥♥♥♥, kunG M@kakaaZAh R!n tU@y0wN6 gaGAm!+iN itow zah tUw!D N@h ♥ xD ♥ p@rAaN powz, @t isAz@UAlang-@laNG @Ng K@P@kanuan nG vuowng zamBaYaN@n.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">haliMV@wAh p0W JejEjeje, May !lu@ng mun!siPy0wh nAh n@!zIpang M@gbUwiS s@h m6@h tranSm1zz!oWn L!N3s ng KUrYEN+e naH duaDaAn zu@h kAnil@ng MGah p0WhowK p0Wz. m@gPaPU@zoK Ng@h p0wh nG K!Tu@h s@H kaNilang lokal n@h ♥ xD ♥ kabAN L0lz, peRoWh k@palIt nI+oW JejejEj3zzszzz, taT@as D!n ANg gAztUZ1n ng mAz NakARar@Ming PILipiN0h sah kURyenTe ♥♥♥♥♥. Tiw@l@H poWH AK0wNg kaYuah N@T1Ng BalanS3h1n @nG INter3s N6 1nYONG mgAH nasaZAkUp@N zah 1NTeres ng zuAMb@YaNAN.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">k@1L@Ng@n P0wn6 maN@+!l1ng MAgKatugmu@h @Ng AtIng Mg@h ProWgr@M@h, DaHil @nG ikuAUunl@d Ng BuonG B@nz@H @ey ManGanganAK din n6 RezUlTuaH Z@h inyOng MGah powh0K. Wak@zan Nah P0wH saN@h n@t1n @ng AgenD@ng N@kA+U0N sAh ZUSUNod NaH 3l3ksyOn luamaNG pOwZSzzZzZ, At Ang kuaIzipan6 1sl@H-izlUAH TuaY0nG MaIh!hIWuaLay aNg zarILiNg P@6sulOn6 ZAh p@g-uNLad nG Bu@NsaH.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tayow-tuayOh r!n p0W Ang DuaPAt muagtUlUnG@N Tung0w s@h ♥ xD ♥ kaunlAR@n lolZ. MalAkEh @ng pasU@s@luaM@+ me z@H K0n6R3z0H s@h p@gp@pUAsUAh ng mG@H v@T@Z ukol SaH g0wcc ♥ xD ♥ goV3RnancE poWz, @rMm zyNchr0Wn!zati0N JEj3jEje~~~, l!Fel1N3 el3cTRiciTY r8tES extenziON JEjejej3SsSszz, jOInt C0NgReSSiowNuAl POwWeR C0mm!sZ10wN ♥ xD ♥ exT3ns10wN loLz, ch1ldr3N AnD ♥ xD ♥ !nF@Nts LOlz’ manduat0Ry immUn!Z@t!0N j3Jej3j3~~~, @+ w0wm3n nyT WoRkeRz, @+ mU@RAmEh PaH Z!gur0nG PuAsuNoWd.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Noong IZaN6 T@On nGAh ♥ xD ♥ p0wH lOlZ, na6p@Kit@ng-GILUaz AN6 K0n6Res0h sah p@gpu@sah ng vudG3t BaGow matapows @ng TUaonZzZzzz. Dah!l H!r jej3jEj3 ♥♥♥♥♥, n@s!MULUaN @gAd ang Mg@H pr0wyekt0w at Nd n@H InuaB0t ng T@g-Ulu@n jeJejeJEZssszz. BUKAZ N@h vuk@s ♥ xD ♥ pow L0lz, !jEJe!n nAH namIn zuAH LeH!ZLatUR@h @n6 vudGEt parUah S@h suZuNoD nAh T@on p0Wz ♥♥♥♥♥. Umuaasah PoW @koW n@h muL! KAyoNg MagpapaK!tanG-g!lu@s jEJ3j3j3 ♥♥♥♥♥, upAn6 TUluy@N n@h n@T!ng m@p!Taz an6 BunG@h Ng mg@h nAIt@niM nu@T!ng pAgBaBa6owH.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">m@g@NdUah NaH P0w Ang ATinG nuasiMULaN p0wz ♥♥♥♥♥. pER0wh Mahalag@h pownG maalalah nat1n JEjejEj3 ♥♥♥♥♥: zIMULAh pah lU@N6 i+oW~~~. MArameh p@h tU@y0Ng gAg@W1n pOwZ~~~. h@Y@aN powH ninY0wng 1LAtag mE Zah k0ngrEz0h ang ilan Sah mg@h buA+@z n@h m@gpaPA1gT!nG suAH p@gtUp@d ng aTiNG M6@h PanA+ah Z@h Bayuan.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">L@yon NAt1ng b1GyaN ng kAuKul@ng k0Mp3Ns@Zy0n ANG mg@H v1ktimah ng M@Rt!@l Lu@W j3J3j3j3~~~; aNg pAgK@KualOoWb NG mUakatArUNguANg paZahoD at V3N3pizYoH puArAh Z@H mgaH kaZamVAHu@eY; @t an6 p@gp@pa+UpUad NG !zanG muas mUa@yoWS naH z1zT3mUah nG PensY0n pArah saH AT!n POwhN6 Mg@H ♥ xD ♥ kAW@l lolz. cnuzUportahan din NatIN @ng pAGPuApal@W@K n6 s@K0p Ng ScholARsHIp nU@h 1pIn@gKAkuAlO0b Ng dost Sah m@huhusaeh n6Un1T k@puzp@lAd Nah maG-@aRaL; aNg pag+AtAgUy0d ng P!naiGtInG nAh pUAnGk@lahatu@n6 ♥ xD ♥ kALUzU6an p0wz; a+ anG PANgaNgU@La6Ah Sah @t!n6 k@L1kaz@N at Z@h mg@h p@s!LiDAd n@h ti+iyaK saH kal!gt@zU@N ng mgah MaMaM@Y@n S@h 0raZ nG SaKun@h.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">k@B!l@N6 D!N p0wH zAH a+Ing @GendaH ang pagp@P@lakuaz Ng buCoWRszzzzZ, Ng nbeH, ng NEah, @+ PAt1 n@h R1n P0Wh ng pTV 4 j3jeJejezsssZz, upANg sAH h@l1p NAh mapAg-iwan@n n6 ku@ALamuan at paNu@HowN JejeJeje ♥♥♥♥♥, mu@s M@AYOwz n1lanG M@gaGAmpANan @ng kAn1luANg P@6biB1gUA3Y-seRb1zY0wh suAH publ1kOh.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">H!nDi k0w pow nail@g@eY anG lAH@t Ng guz+oNg MAGPaZal3h ng kan!lanG @dbokAS!Yah h!r P0wH sah Z0WnAh. p3R0wH kumplEtOH p0w @ng deTaly3 sAH BUdg3T @t buDget mEzzag3~~~. zAh mGah iNtErEZAD0w powH ♥♥♥♥♥, pAk!buaS@h nAH laNg detalY3 do0n.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">mAy m6Ah NaGsu@sav!nG PinEp3rzoNaL Me r@w ang PuAgj3J3vol sUAH mgah T!wUal3y. 220wh pOwH ♥♥♥♥♥: perS0nAl tuAlagaH Z@h ak1n anG P@GGu@waH Ng tAm@h, @+ ang p@gpapaNAgOwT sah MGaH guM@g@waH nG mUaLeh—s!n0wh man z!L@h. at nd L@ManG d@pat aQ aNg namemErz0naL zah Usap1nG itoH. PErzown@l D@p@t I+ow Suah AtIng ♥ xD ♥ lAhUA+ lOlz, DAh!l vaw@t pIL!PINoh @EH b1ktim@h N!tow.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">@nG mu@lI—g@anOwh kaTagual man 1+0w naN@t1ley—ay m@L! Puah ♥ xD ♥ r!n LOLz. Nd puW3d3nG “OKZ l@Ng” jeJEJ3jezSSSZz; Nd puw3d3n6 “walah lAng ♥ xD ♥ IyaN. Lolz” kap@g k1Nal1mUTan natIn Ang mgAH i+oW Jej3jejE, m@NgyuAyarEY l@nG ulit @ng Mgah kAm@l1Uan n6 ♥ xD ♥ NAKuAr@an l0Lz. kuNg nD mAgB@VAyad Ang MgUah NUagk@salUaH, pu@ruanG tay0h N@H r!N m!zMow aNg nag-!Mb1T@h s@H Mg@H nagVaBaLAk GumaWah Ng mazamuaH NAh KUNG ♥ xD ♥ puW3De lolZ, UULitIn Niny0wH @NG g!nawU@h N!ny0H.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">aNg 2+OoH nGuah ♥ xD ♥ P0wh l0LZ, m@RUam! PaNg K@L0koH@n ang NuahaLUN6kaT n@T!n—P3rOh Nd NuaH Powh m@gpApakAhuAV@h DoOWn jej3Jeje ♥♥♥♥♥, Bigy@N k0w n@H l@Ng kAYOW ng iSUaNg HaLimVawu@H. zaH ♥ xD ♥ p@Gc0r l0LZ: kU@Pe PowZ~~~. izAn6 b!lYong piS0w poWh ang GiNaZt0s ng D@Ting Pamunu@N ng AhenzY@H p@RU@H Zah ♥ xD ♥ KaP3 Lolz; s@H isAnDaang p1s0H NUaH lang POwH K@dah TaSaH, lAlaBaz Nuah nakaKONZUMoh ZILaH nG ZUamPung mILyONg T@z@h NG Ku@Pe pOwz~~~. b@kah P0wh kAh!t NGauNg iVu@h n@H @n6 pU@MuNUuAN Ng pu@gCoR A3h DIla+ nUAh d!lu@+ puaH r1n anG MA+uAh NG mg@H uminom n6 k@PEnG !TOh. h@n@Pin nGaH PowH na+1n Sil@H, at muatAn0nG powz ♥♥♥♥♥: NaKak@+ulowg PAh p0WH kU@YOh?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">pagPUasok n6 vaGowng 0wmVUDsmaN nAh s! d@tiNg zupr3ME coUrt jus+ic3 C0WnChitAh C@rpi0w-m0wR@Les J3JeJejE ♥♥♥♥♥, magKU@kAr00n taY0h ng TaN0d-b@yan Nah nd m@GI6!Ng taN0wD-vaYUaD ng MgAh NAGwAWAng-wUan6 sU@h p@m@haL@AN Powz. 1nuaUASuah@n kow NGaH p0wh nah ZUaH Ta0Wn NaH iToh, mAS@sampaHan nu@h Ng Kuaz0H aNg maR@Ming NuAGkuntzavU@H@N zah katiW@lian, aT nA6Ing sAnheh nG zI+uw@ZyoNg atiNg in@Bu+uaN powz. t@POwS nUAH r1n pOWh aNG P@nAhowN Kung k@Il@n n@gzUaSuAmP@h Ang gobyerN0w ng m@lalabnaW nuaH kaZOWh. Ku@p@g t@y0Wh ang na6zAmpuah, m@t1BaY an6 EB!dEnsYAH, m@l!Naw aN6 teZtim0wNyah, aT z!GuRadong w@laNG luZo+ ang s@LAriN.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tut0k poWh tay0h nah @Ng pAGK@kaM!t ng guan@P nAh k@TAruNgU@n A3h ND NAta+@PoWz SAh PA6Su@sAkDal KuNg nd SUah pAgKUKuloNG Ng maySal@H. vu0w An6 KuMP!YaNs@H me nuah t!nuTuPUad NG DepaRtM3nT 0wF JuztIcE @n6 MuaL@KeH Nilu@Ng bu@Hag! upu@Ng M@!P!iT Ang MGuah sUALAR!n jejEjEj3, lAl0w n@h zAh MgUAh kAZ0H uK0l Z@H t@X evaz!0n JEj3J3je, dRUG trAFf!Ck!nG ♥♥♥♥♥, HumaN ♥ xD ♥ tr@ffick!nG L0lz, ZmUggling j3JejejE ♥♥♥♥♥, GRafT @Nd CorrUpt!on, a+ eXTr@JUdIcial k!llin6z.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">wuALaH pOwhNg tSAmBUah: @ng tapaT @+ mabut!N6 p@MAMuAhUal@h Ay n@nG@n6aNAk ng Mu@BUTeh R!Ng reSuLTAh. 1zIpin pow ninY0H: NaipAtupu@D na+in @ng mGah 1p1nUaNg@k0wng SerbisYow nG 60wbYErn0h, A+ n@KAPu@GLA@n pah nG zuApaT Nu@h p0whND0wH PARaH z@h mgAH pR0Yektoh NuaNG nd kiN@IluangAnG ma6tuaU@z ng vUW1z.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Iyu@n N@man pOwh T@lu@6ah @nG pLan0w jEjeJEje: zigurUh1n nUaH PataZ Ang lAbuan~~~; !t1G1l ang panLalamanG n6 mG@h ♥ xD ♥ Mak@pUAngYU@R1h@N P0wz; at Tiy@k1n naH aNG Da+inG ZiZTEmU@H kung zAaN naKIk!n@bUanG AnG iilaN a3y Mag1g!Ng bukal Ng 0wp0rtUn!d@d Pu@Rah S@h Lah@t.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">T1nuTuLDuk@n N@H powh Nu@tIn AnG wAN6-WaNg jeJ3j3j3~~~: S@h KaLS@Dah, zAH ♥ xD ♥ g0bY3rnow L0Lz, z@H k@LUakhaNg ♥ xD ♥ LipuNUan powZ. iT0h powh @nG m@ngangu@NuAK Ng kumPiyanzah NaH M@gDAD@Lah N6 n3GOWSy0h; 1toh riN @ng s!z!guROh nah an6 poWHNDoh ng tAumvAyan AEh muapupuN+UAh sAH D@P@t NIT0N6 ♥ xD ♥ K@laGYan l0lz: iMPraztrUk+ur@h naH t!tiY@K S@h Tuluy@Ng puAg-anG@t ng 3kowN0M1Yah at PagMumul@N n6 tru@b@h0h, @T s3rb!sY0Wng panLiPunAN naH s!sIgURong w@L@ng m@Pag-!!WaNan jEjej3J3 ♥♥♥♥♥. BuvUK@S aNg M@raMeH paNG P1n+UAng panGk@VuhAyAn z@h p@Mu@ma6!t@N ng tur!Sm0wh; siz16uruHing Nd mAgu6UtoM @N6 p!l1p1n0w zah pagpaP@LUAk@z n6 AgRiKultUruAH. an6 m6@h du@t1n6 KiNakuAlIGtaan PoWZ~~~, bibi6yuANg-pUhunAn @n6 K!nabuKu@zUan.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">muagVubUnSod 1t0w Ng s1klOwh Kung S@@n t!yuak n@h muaY Pupunowh sAH mG@h N@l1Likh@N6 ♥ xD ♥ traBah0W p0WZ, @t mu@Y mGaH k0wnzuMEr nah l@L0Ng mA6P@pal@GOH sAh mgaH neGozy0h.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">bA+id me Pow NaH huaNGg@Ng nG@yOwn aeh Ma3h kaku@un+3H puaN6 NaGrEREKLuaM0w zah ating 3st1lOW ng p@M@maHAlAh. N@kItah p0Wh n!Ny0W an6 amiNG ES+!loh, a+ AnG Ka@kiBAt N!toNg r3Sultah. N@k!tUah p0W N1nYowh aN6 eztIl0h N!lah, @T KunG z@an tUaY0H N!+0H D1naluah. zaH mGAH t@OWNG vuk@z Ang M@Tah, M@l!w@NUag kunG SA@n @ng T@mAh.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">N6ayoNg t@yoW nuaH aNg nu@6titImoWN S@h g0vyeRnoH, mUaLinaW ANg D!rEKZY0ng T!n@t@h@K NG @t!Ng ♥ xD ♥ VAyAn L0lz. IzanG vanzaH KUng s@AN ang p@gKak@tu@0n aeh Ab0t-k@MuaY; KuNg zAuaN aNg mGAH nAnganga!lang@n @Y ♥ xD ♥ Z!nAZakLoWlowHAN lOlz; KunG sUa@n MAEY sayzU@Y anG B@waT patak nG p@wiz~~~, VuawaT zaND@l3h Ng pagtIt1Iz p0Wz~~~, AT B@w@t butIL Ng hInu@Gp!s N@h d!nAuaNUaN nUat1N~~~. kung m@3h 6AwIn K@n6 mabUT!, M@eh BUAbaL!K sAh !y0WN6 mavut3H. @t KUng mU@Y g@W!N k@N6 mAsaM@h, tIYAk nuaH m@NanUagot KaH.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">N@a@l@lAh ME N6@H pOW ang 1z@ng g!nAnG nah luMapIt SaH @k!n N00ng kamPuanyuAh; @ng b@Balu@h nIyah, “N0WY pOwzzzzSzz, Mag-Iing@t K@h, m@Ram! kANg kin@KAbuAnggAH.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">taMah Pow ang Savi n!yAH: t@0W poWhng mU@eY agam-AG@m DIN Ak0w kunG m!nzAN Jejejej3. PEr0h w@laH p0w MeNG AliNl@NG@nG tUMah@k s@h tuwId N@H D@an ♥♥♥♥♥: BuoWh @ng Lo0WB K0w dAhIl alam KoNg nasAh L1KowD M3 P0wh KaYow. SU@l@m@t P0w.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">z@lAmAt p0wh Z@h mguah paRey at obiZP0w naH mazinz!nang n@KiKIp@6D1yaloGoh su@H aT!N, k@TuLad n1Nah cARD!nUaL r0wzaleS at vIdal P0wZ~~~. D3h NaMan P0Wh KaMeH Gan0on6 kalapit neh cuaRd!n@l r0s@lEs JeJ3jej3~~~, p3r0wh Nan1N1W@luAh M3n6 IViNuh0s niyAh AN6 LAhat Parah m@BAw@zAN ang Nd Pin@gK@kaun@wAan ng g0wvyeRN0w At ZimB@haNzzSszZ. Z@h pAGkaH@luaL k@eH @rchb1Zhop palMAH, tA6apagt@nGg0l nG K@rapAtAng pAN+aOWh aT KualikAzan jejejej3ZZSzzZ, l@LOW PowNg Tum1vAy @n6 @Kin6 kuMPiyAnZUaNG ♥ xD ♥ Ugnayan L0LZ, @t Nd bAngayAn jEjEJeJe, an6 mabuBUOWh Sah P@GIt@N N6 3STaD0H At s!mbuaHAn.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">zAl@mAt dIn p0wh s@h A+1NG gab!nEtE J3JeJeJe, NAh Wu@l@ng kinIk1laLANg pANah0n Ng tUl0W6 0w Pah!Ngah, M@1paTuP@d LaNg Ang PUamvAnzaNg a6enDah. Sp3ciAL m3n+I0n P0wh An6 PaG@Sah, n@H TunAy n@h ngaung nagv1B!GAEy NG Maa@S@hanG bAb@lah.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">at Zah MGah Nas@sAgazuAan p0wh nATiN zaH landAZ NG KatApuATAN @t int3GridaD s@H pamamaH@lah, !T0h n@Man powh aNG Ak!n6 masuaZ@v1: pin1l3h n!nY0wh @NG L@NdAS kung z@UaN nA@UaPi ANG zamB@yanaN JejEjeJe. PiN!LEh naman NAmin @Ng lU@NdAZ N@h Ipagtanggol @ng T@UmBay@N p0wZ. Nuasah t@mah Powh kam!~~~; Nu@zUah Mal! KuayOw JeJEj3j3ssSszZ. SAh Iny0nG MAGb@vAl1K Ng p@ng-@@PeH ZU@h sAMvayan jejEjeje, nd kuAyoh mAGtAtagumpUay.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SAh L@H@T ng mg@h kUazAmah NuAtiN Zu@h tUw!d nAH ♥ xD ♥ D@@n loLZ: KaY0W ang lUm1kH@h nG p@GK@k@+aownG BaguH1N anG ♥ xD ♥ dINa+nAn l0lZ, aT 6awINg mas ma6@ndAh aNg !Pu@pAm@nah Nuat!N zU@h zusuN0wD NAh sAL!nlah! ng m6@h piL1p1n0wH. KAy0w p0whng Mgah tSuP3r nah pumAPAsAd@h pUAH ♥ xD ♥ r!n l0Lz; kay0ng mgAh 6uR0h @T eS+UDYaN+3N6 pauw! pah lanG mulah zAH ♥ xD ♥ Klaz3 loLZ; KAy0n6 p@TUl0weh aNg pA6L!kH@h nG mgAh ovraNg n@6pAp@@luAV saH ApOWy ng ATIng paGkah-pilip!n0WzSsZzZ; K@yONg M6u@H PUliz p0wz, ♥ xD ♥ SUndAl0w LOlZ, kAmIn3roW jej3JejE, aT bumVEr0h; KAyoN6 MgAH muaRAnG@l n@H mAgtrabahoh, s@h pIlIP!N@s MUansZzsZz, SAH gi+nAng dagAt jejejeJ3 ♥♥♥♥♥, ow ZAh ivuaNg b@nZ@h; k@Y0Ng mG@H Tap@t nuah K@Samu@H N@t1n zAH g0ByERnowh, @nUMAn6 PR0binzYU@H oW Part!DOh; KAY0ng Mg@h pIl1p1N0Ng n@k1Kinig zah AKiN NG@y0wN—k@y0wh p0wH ang lumiKhAh ng pagkAkatUa0ng !t0h.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">lUM!kh@H PowH k@yOh NG G0wByeRNonG tuNuaEH n@h n@g+aTru@bah0h PArah z@h iNY0h. may l!mang TU@0n puah tAyow pARAh ZigURuhing Nd Nah TAy0h B@bAlIK ZUAH dATIng ♥ xD ♥ k@lAgAyan l0lz. nd T@yoh maGpApUadiskar1l nG@YOWng nAPak@gANdah n@h nG rEsul+u@h nG at!ng Z!NiMuLaN.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">kapu@G MaY naK!tah Tay0ng VuTas ZaH z!ZTemAh, Huwuag nU@H p0W taYow MaGtuan6kang ♥ xD ♥ LUMUZ0t LOLZ. hUwAg Nuah Nat!nG dua@n!n SAH P@kiuz@p aNg m@daDu@uAN saH ♥ xD ♥ p@6siziKaP l0lz. T@mah N@h @ng ♥ xD ♥ unaHan loLZ, tUAm@h nAh AnG tulUAkan, TaMaH nuah @n6 l@mU@nGAN j3Jej3je, DAh1L L@h@t n@man P0W tuayow @y MAKu@KaRa+INg sah m1n1m!TheH n@Ting K!nAbuk@zan.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TaPuz!n nAH PoWH nAtin aNg kultuRah nG N3g@tibIZmowZssSzz; ian6uaT nAtIN @n6 KapWAh-P!lip!n0h zU@h vu@WuAT ♥ xD ♥ p@GkAKaTA0WN L0lz. b@Ki+ p0wh @NG !vu@h, ang hIl1g m@6hAnap ng KUng AnU-aNown6 paNg!t Z@H ATing vAYaN Jejejej3? @T NAp@kaH!rap—paRANg kAZ@LaN@n—nAh MAgZ@vey ng ma6@nDah? n@al@lah Pah powh bah nat1n n00wng HuL!nG ves3S tu@Yong PuMureY Zah K@pw@h p1lipinOwH?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">!tig!l nuAh p0wh nAtin @ng p@6h!h1lAHaN paBabah. ang DUa+!nG IndustR!Yah nG p1nt@ZAn Nah Nd na+!n m@!TuakwIl p0wz, iwuaKs1 n@h poWH ♥ xD ♥ n@t!N l0lz. tULdUkan n@H p0Wh natin anG P@gIging utAk-alimangow jEJEjej3 ♥♥♥♥♥; puw3D3 bANG !uanGUAt N@Man N@t!N @Ng mag@G@ndAh NatiNG nagAw@h?</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">KUnG Maeh nu@K!t@h kanG MaBU+! JejEJeJ3 ♥♥♥♥♥, hUwAG k@nG ma6DalAwAn6-iZ!P n@h PuriHin iT0H. kaP@G nU@ki+@h MoH aNg puL1Z z@h KAnT0WH, na6TatrApIk n@ng wAl@ng kapoT3 S@h 1lal!M ng ulan~~~, l@pItan m0h s!Y@h @+ ♥ xD ♥ savihing l0LZ, “Z@L@mA+ pOw.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">kUng muagKAz@KIT kuah At mak!tAh moh @ng nuarZ NUAh nag-@RuGah SAH !y0w ♥♥♥♥♥, sah h@l!p nah magzErv!Syoh saH DAyuhu@N k@PualI+ Ng Mas malak!ng zuWeLdOwh, puAkiZaBeh rin ♥ xD ♥ pOwH PowZ, “Z@luaMAt p0Wh.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">bUAGoh kuaH Umuweh gAl!ng eZkuWelah, Lap1+@n m0W aNG GuRoH mowng P!NiL1NG maMUHUNaN SaH !YoNg k!nuAbuKAzaN KuAYS@H Un@Hin @Ng sAR1LIn6 ginhawah; zaBihiN m0h, “ZaLaMua+ pOWH” POwz ♥♥♥♥♥: tULAd ng @kINg guronG NasAH sCreEN Nguay0n jeJejEJE ♥♥♥♥♥, Sal@m@+ P0wh 6Inang ezcasah.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">KunG muaK@zUAlUB0Ng M0w @nG 1Y0nG K!n@+@waN z@H kalsadan6 DAtI A3h LuBUak-lubak (0wH wUAlAh)sZsszz, @+ ngAy0wN AY PuwEdE naNg dAuanu@n nU@nG ♥ xD ♥ MaaliwUalaz p0wz, LAP!taN m0wh ziy@h @t saviH!Ng pOWZ~~~: “z@L@muat p0Wh.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">kAyAh ♥ xD ♥ Powh Powz, z@h S@mvUaY@nu@ng P1L!p1n0h, ang @king BoSz NaH nagtimOn z@H aTin Tungowh z@h @RaW N@h i+0h: MAr@m!ng~~~, m@R@miNG zaL@m@t P0WH sAh pu@gbUaB@g0WNg t1Nu@T@masuah n@t1N ng@y0wn.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BUHAy Nah bUhAY nuah ang p!LIP!nU@s @T @ng piL!pIn0h.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">(Paumanhin sa mga totoong Jejemon. At walang pagpapaumanhin kay Noynoy Aquino. Kopya ng SONA mula sa </span><a href="http://bit.ly/qIrLIy" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Official Gazette</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">. Salamat sa </span><a href="http://jejemon.x10hosting.com/jejemon.php" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Jejemon Translator</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span">)</span></span></span></div></div></div></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-14761478096127389942011-07-05T15:43:00.003+08:002011-08-22T02:55:30.322+08:00Ako Rin, May Problema. :( ni Alexamuel Vadil (isang kaibigan)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Para sa mga kasamang nadedemoralisa, o simpleng naguguluhan lang with regard sa patuloy na pagkilos:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Hindi na bago yan. Ako man, madalas makaramdam ng ganyan, panlulumo, o simpleng apathy na lang. Pag di ko na kaya, titigil na lang. Kahit ano pang mabasa, marinig o mapanood ko, kebs lang. Nasa magandang katayuan naman tayo eh, magtagumpay man o hindi ang laban ng mga mamamayan.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Ang mga ate natin na nabubulok sa tahanan dahil tinakda na ng lipunan na ang babae, dapat nakakulong lang sa bahay, o di kaya'y pwede lang lumabas kung tangan-tangan lang niya ang mga aesthetics na hinahanap ng merkado.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Mga kasama, kahit gaano pa "kaayos" nating sabihin ang mga buhay natin, hanggang itong lipunang ginagalawan natin ay kontrolado ng iilan, hanggang ang kalayaan ay nabubuhay lang sa retorika at ang ginahawa ay para lang sa iilan, itong "kaayusan" na ito ay mananatiling isang kathang-isip lamang.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Pero sa totoo lang, kahit gaano kabigat, at least para sa konteksto natin, ang mga problemang ito, kung ikukumpara mo naman sa nagaganap sa Pilipinas, sa kung saan ang 70% ng 95 milyon na populasyon ay nabubuhay lang sa P104/araw, hindi pa kasama ang mga magsasaka na kailangang buhayin ang pamilya nila sa halagang P9.50/linggo, ang mga maralitang walang trabaho dahil sa kawalan ng industriya, at mga manggagawa na may trabaho nga, pero ang kinikitang P404/araw ay di man lang umabot sa P985 na minimum na kailangan ng isang pamilya ng lima para mabuhay ng matiwasay sa isang araw.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Kung ikukumpara mo ang mga problema mo sa kanila, napaka-chicken lang nito. Ikaw, kung mawawalan ka ng jowa pwede ka pang humanap ng iba. Pero sila, pag di sila nakakain, buhay nila ang mawawala. Sabihin mo nga, pag nawala ang buhay mo, makakahanap ka pa ba ng kapalit? Ayokong maging maangas, pero sana, pag-isipan natin ito.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Sabi nga sa kanta, "..naguguluhan pa ako ngayon, naghihintay na sila doon. May panahong magduda at magtanong, ngayon ang panahon ng pagharap at pagsulong." :)</span></span></div></div><span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{"type":"20"}"><button class="like_link stat_elem as_link" data-ft="{"type":23}" name="unlike" title="Stop liking this item" type="submit"><span class="default_message"></span></button></span></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-79683189370112809512011-06-11T00:45:00.002+08:002012-01-06T04:17:03.949+08:00Ang Tanong na Marapat na Itanong<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Ang sumusunod ay isang talumpating ibinigkas nitong nakaraang Abril, sa araw ng pagtatapos ng mga estudyante ng Kolehiyo ng Pangmadlang Komunikasyon. Kaalinsabay nito ay isang maiksing kilos-protestang nagpaigting sa katotohanang "walang pagbabago sa ilalim ni Aquino":</span></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Mahalaga ang umagang ito para sa ating lahat, hindi lang para sa mga mismong magtatapos, ngunit para na rin sa mga magulang at tagapangalagang nagsakripisyo upang makitang tumanggap ng diploma ang kanilang mga anak. Ngunit mahalaga man ang umagang ito, hindi pa rin maikakailang lahat tayo ay magtatanong sa ating mga sarili: Ano na ang susunod? Anong mangyayari bukas, pagbangon nating muli bilang mga gradweyt ng Unibersidad ng Pilipinas-Maskom, at bilang mga bagong opisyal na dagdag sa istatistika ng unemployed na mga Pilipino? At sabi nga ng isang patalastas sa telebisyon, marapat lang siguro nating itanong sa ating mga sarili, “Para kanino ako babangon?”</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Hindi po kami pesimista. Naniniwala kaming ang Bulwagan ng Plaridel ay, kailanman, hindi nawalan ng abanteng pwersa. At naniniwala kaming ang araw na ito ay tunay na araw ng pagdiriwang. Subalit sa kabila ng mga sablay at nagniningningang kaputian ng mga suot ng mga nagsisipagtapos, makikita ang mas maliwanag na bukas na puno ng mga pangarap, panata, at paghamon. Nawa, ang pansamantalang paglisan natin sa ating mahal na pamantasan ay hindi nangangahulugan ng paglisan din sa ating mga pakikibaka.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Huwag nating kalimutan na tayo ang tinaguriang “ToFI Babies.” Tayo ang unang batch ng mga Iskolar ng Bayang naapaektuhan ng 300% tuition and other fees increase. Ni-railroad ito ng UP Board of Regents, taong 2006, kasabay ng pagratsada ng mga anti-estudyanteng neoliberal na polisiya gaya ng pagbenta ng university idle assets upang maitayo ang UP-Ayala Land Technohub, demolisyon sa Pook Ricarte, Pook Palaris, at Pook Dagohoy—o RIPADA kung tawagin—na pawang mga komunidad sa loob ng UP, at pagpapaalis ng University Food Service at UP Integrated School sa kasalukuyan nitong mga lugar. Sunud-sunod na rin ang mga nakaambang na demolisyon sa ilang mga barangay na kapitbahay ng UP dahil sa Quezon City Central Business District (QC-CBD), isang multi-billion joint project ng lokal na pamahalaan ng QC at Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) na may basbas ni Pangulong Benigno “PNoy” Aquino. At sino naman ang nakikinabang sa mga anti-mamamayang mga polisiya at proyektong ito? Nais ba nating bumangon para sa mapang-alipin at mapangkamal na nagsisilakihang pribadong kumpanyang hawak ng mga dayuhan at mayayamang iilan? </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Huwag din nating kalimutan sina Karen Empeño at Sherlyn Cadapan na mga estudyante ng UP na dinukot ng militar sa Hagonoy, Bulacan, halos limang taon na rin ang nakalilipas. Hanggang ngayon, ay hindi pa rin sila nakikita. Wala man lang mapaglamayang ni isang kabaong. At sino ba naman ang makalilimot sa mga pinakamalagim na pangyayari sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas? Sino ang makalilimot sa pagkitil ng 58 inosenteng buhay, kung saan 32 rito ay mga katrabaho natin sa larangan ng media? Ang Ampatuan Massacre ay nagdulot ng matinding takot sa mga mamamahayag, hindi lang sa Pilipinas, kundi sa buong mundo, at naglagay ng ating bansa sa pandaigdigang mapa ng kahihiyan at panganib. Bilang kolehiyo, matindi natin itong kinundena. Nariyan din ang tila malaking elepante sa loob ng silid: ang Hacienda Luisita Massacre na kumitil naman sa buhay ng pitong magsasaka’t manggagawang bukid sa lupang pagmamay-ari ng mga Cojuangco at Aquino. Hanggang ngayon, ay hindi pa rin nakakamit ng mga biktima nito ang hustisya. Hindi rin dapat limutin ang Mendiola Massacre na tugon sa isang mapayapang kilos protesta ng mga magsasaka sa Malacañang noong 1987. Hindi lamang sa pagkundena nagtatapos ang ating sagot. Ating markahan ang mga araw na ito, at huwag na huwag nating kalilimutan. Ating bantayan ang kapwa nating mga mamamahayag at sibilyan nang hindi na maulit ang ganoong kadilim na mga yugto sa ating kasaysayan. At higit sa lahat, singilin ang mga berdugo, ang mga may utang na dugo! Tayo ay patuloy na manawagang ibigay ang nararapat na katarungan sa mga biktima ng mga Ampatuan, Cojuangco, at Aquino! ‘Pagkat sino ba naman ang nais bumangon para sa isang pasistang estadong iwinawaksi ang mismong karapatang pantao ng mga mamamayan nito? </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Ang lahat ng ito, isyu man ng pamantasan o ng buong bayan, ay maiuugat sa iisang suliranin: ang culture of impunity, o kawalan ng hustisya sa bansa. Kung mayroon man, ito ay mailap sa masa at mas pumapabor sa interes ng nabanggit na mga dayuhan o mayayamang iilan. Pinakamagagandang halimbawa nito ang ilang mga matutunog na pangalang kung wala pa rin sa kulungan, ay mayroong nagawa pang maging presidente ng bansa. Tayo ay binulag ng pangako ng isang landas na matuwid. Ngayon, tayo ay tumatahak sa isang baku-bako at paliku-likong daan patungong neoliberalismo, patungo sa isang uri ng lipunang nananatiling atrasado, nambubusabos, at unti-unting pumapatay sa buhay at diwa ng sambayanan. Dahil ang sistema ay hindi “Matira, matibay,” kundi, “matira, may kuwalta.” Sa huli, ito pa rin ay labanan ng mga uri. At sa umpisa’t huli, tayo ang mapagpasiya: tayo ba ay para sa mapang-aping dayuhan at mayayamang iilan, o tayo ba ay para sa inaaping masa?</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Kaya naman tulad ng tema natin ngayong umaga, hinihimok tayo ng panahon at ng mga pagkakataong mas kumilos na, hindi lang dahil personal at pang-estudyante ang mga isyu, kundi dahil tayo ay Iskolar mula sa Bayan, at Iskolar para sa Bayan. At hindi lang ito basta-bastang “elections tagline,” dahil ang tunay na UP student o graduate ay nagsisilbi sa sambayanang api kung saan utang natin ang mismong umagang ito. Hindi sapat ang honor at excellence sa loob ng klasrum at retorika ng mga magagaling magpaliwanag nito. Sapagkat ang tunay na dangal at kahusayan ay matatagpuan sa “dangal ng paglilingkod kasama ang bayan at kahusayan sa paglubog sa batayang masa.”</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Taas kamaong pagbati sa ating mga gradweyt sa Kolehiyo ng Pangmadlang komunikayon! Mabuhay ang mga Iskolar ng Bayan! </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Isa o dalawang lingo na ang nakalipas, nagtext si Arnold sa akin mula sa farm (literal na nasa farm siya at hindi kung ano pa mang farm) at binibida ang iyong blog, kung nabasa ko na ba ito, manghang-mangha siya rito, naa-agit, natutuwa, nabibilib, nagagalit, naaawa, sa madaling salita, nawawafaz. Kaya pinuntahan ko ang blogsite mo. Hindi iyon yung una kong pagbisita. Nadaan na ko doon pero hindi ako makatapos ng entry kasi ang lakas maka-crying lady ng moda doon. Hindi kinakaya ng pagkalalake ko. Chos. Gustong-gusto ko ang iyong sikoanalitiko at mapagbigay na interpretasyon sa aking maling alaala sa inyong inawit. Aba’y sino ba namang hunghang ang hindi matutuwang maiugnay sa pampulitikang katalasan ang kanyang paguulyanin, diba?* Nagpadala din sa akin si Boogie ng pagwawasto hinggil doon, sabi niya 1991 iyon, hindi 1992 (yun ang una kong naitala). Alam na alam niya ito dahil mahalaga raw ang kaganapan na iyon para sa kanya. Sa huli naming palitan sa facebook, kinakamusta ka niya at nakikibalita sa iyong kaso.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ang saya-saya ng Acosta Universe gig kagabi. Hindi ko naman masabing “sana nandoon ka” dahil kung wala ka diyan wala namang ganoong kaganapan. Gayunpaman, sana talaga nandoon ka. Ang huhusay ng mga umawit, yung iba mas mahusay pa nga sayo. Kagaya pa rin ng dati, nakakabilib talaga itong si Chikoy ng The Jerks. Tapos ang husay ng tambalan ni Nato at ni Dong Abay. Ang unang tinugtog nila ay Awit ng Peti B. Nakatitig ako kay Dong at namangha at napaluha rin ng kaunti dahil memoryado niya ang awiting ito. Siyempre nakakatuwang marinig ulit ang State U na si Dong mismo ang kumakanta. Lagi pa ring inaawit ng mga batang aktibista iyon dito sa Peyups. Umawit at nagitara rin si Levy Demetillo ng mga piyesa ni Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan at Beatles. Bago umawit si Danny Fabella, nabanggit niyang nakatrabaho ka niya sa ilang gawaing kultural noong bandang 1999 hanggang 2001at inawit na niya ang mga matatalas niyang piyesa. Siyempre hindi mawawala sa mga ganitong okasyon si Koyang Jess Santiago, sumasabay pa nga kami sa pagkanta niya. Merong lang isa na hindi namin masabayan ni Dennis, tanong pa nga niya sa akin, anong kinakanta niya Japanese? Sagot ko, akala ko nga kanina Latin eh.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nagbigay din ng mensahe ng pakikiisa at mariing nanawagan ang Pambansang Alagad ng Sining, si Propesor at Kasamang Bienvenido Lumbera. Bongga ang tugtugan ng Free Ericson Acosta Band. Oo, may ganon. Si Nato siyempre ang gitarista. Singers sina Birung na ngayon ay nagbabalik-loob na sa tunay niyang pangalang walang kasing ganda—Sarah at si Aki ng League of Filipino Students. Iba ang tama ng dalawang ito. Ang lalaki ng boses, buong-buo. Nakakalalake. Para silang sinapian ng kaluluwa ni Janis Joplin at Eddie Vedder. Inawit nila yung may lyrics na binabanatan ang VFA. Medyo napaiyak ako doon, kasi sobrang galing, alam mo yung mga pagkakataong naluluha ka gawa ng “awe”? Ganon. Pero dahil din sa biglang sumagi sa isip ko ang imahe mong inaawit yun noon, parang nakita ko yung pagpadyak mo, papikit-pikit at pagsabay ng iyong ulo sa beat. Miss na miss kita. (okay na? next...). Sumama rin si Balakid ng Sinag Bayan sa jamming na ito. Napakahusay niyang mag-rap sa pagitan ng mga titik ng awiting sinulat mo. Sa tantya naming lahat, siya na ang kinabukasan ng hip-hop sa mundong ibabaw. Ganon siya kabangis. Isang nagngangalang Atty Baybay na isa ring folk singer ang nag-alay ng mga awitin para sa iyo. Hindi ka raw niya personal na kilala pero nakikiisa siya. Folk singer siya na may regular gig sa My Brother’s Moustache tuwing Lunes. Mehn, para siyang pinaghalong Beatles at James Taylor. Yung kanta ng Beatles aawitin niyang mala-James Taylor. Iba din siya eh, noh? Mawawala ba naman si Babez sa lahat ng eksenang ito? May kasama siyang iba pang musikero na tumugtog ng buong husay sa mga awitin ng bandang Anak ni Aling Juana. Naaalala mo pa dati, binansagan mo akong Chona (na may konotasyong malandi o kerengkeng) habang nag-aabang tayo ng dyip sa tapat ng Vinzons tapos biglang dumating si Babez at pinakilala mo siya sa akin bilang Chimini (sa pelikula sa utak mo, alalay o muchacha mo siya). At ikaw naman si George, ayon din sa iyo.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kung hindi ka pa nakulong at hindi pa inilunsad ang Free Ericson Acosta Campaign hindi na siguro kami magkikita nina Nova at Trisa. May panahon sa buhay ko na pakiramdam ko hindi ko kayang mabuhay ng wala si Nova. Hindi naman sa nain-love ako sa kanya, hindi rin naman sa walang kwenta sa akin si Trisa. Meron lang talagang mga ganong sentimyento. Ang panganay ni Nova na inaanak ko (ikaw rin ba?) ay magfi-first year high school na sa Philippine Science. Napabulalas ako “Aba matalino!” Tawang-tawa ako sa suspetya ni Trisa. Sabi niya, “Sa palagay ko may kinalaman yan sa librong niregalo ko sa kanya nung maliit pa siya...” At binanggit niya ang titulo ng libro at naaalala pa rin ito ni Nova. Ayoko namang magpahuli, ninang din ako noh, bakit ba. Kaya sabi ko, hindi, sa tingin ko mas epekto yan nung una at huli kong regalo kay Wishy, isang malaking laruang truck na binili nating dalawa sa Hi-Top ba o Glory's (na Save More na ngayon) bago tayo tumungo sa dating bahay nila Nova. Kasama natin noon si Trisa at ang dati niyang boyfriend na ngayon ay asawa na niya (kaya hindi ito si Richard Gappi). Natuwa si Trisa sa alaalang ito dahil ito raw ang huli niyong pagkikita.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Naalala mo nung huli tayong nagkita, noong isang taon ba yun? Tumatawid tayo sa Aurora, Cubao, kakagaling lang natin sa National Bookstore at isang kainan ng donut. Sabi mo sa akin, "Hindi ka tumatanda no? Ganon pa rin itsura mo mula dati.” Sige lang ako sa paglalakad hanggang sa nanggaling na rin mismo sa iyo na, “Uy, pareho tayo no? Hindi tayo mukhang matanda.” Hindi ka lang talaga makapaghintay diba? Plano ko namang ibalik ang papuri, gusto ko lang mag-ingat sa pagtawid. Nabanggit ko ito dahil si Trisa mas mukha pa ngang bumata. Nag-south beach diet daw siya tatlong buwan ang nakaraan at nabawasan siya ng 30 lbs. Wala akong masabi. Magkikita-kita ulit kami sa mga susunod pang araw. Nandoon nga rin pala si Sally! Oo, si Sally the Dog! Naku, tuwang-tuwa ako na makita siya. Nabanggit ko ba sa iyo na nung nagbalik-eskwela siya ay umupo siya sa isang klase ko?</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nagkaroon din ng auction. Dalawang bag na pinintahan ni Tweet ng mukha mo. Yung isa nakuha sa halagang 500 yung isa naman 1,000. Naks. Sabi ko sa kanya, igawa na lang niya ako, huwag na niyang hintaying mag-bid pa ko sa auction dahil wala naman akong pera. Oo raw. Panalo. Iniisip ko nga, eh kung hindi na lang kaya mukha mo ang ipinta niya, mukha ko na lang? Labas na rin lang sa auction bakit hindi pa natin lubusin. May Free Ericson Acosta shirt na rin na binebenta sa halagang 300. Naubos na nga yung pin. Sinubukan kong ibenta yung sa akin ng 200 pesos pero walang kumagat. Bigay lang sa akin ni Dennis yun nung presscon. Hay, ang saya talaga ng Acosta Universe! Punong-puno ang My Brother’s Moustache. Sukdulang orga-organisasyon ang dumalo! Masabi ko lang, nag-emcee ako. Baka akalain mo isa lang akong dakilang kwentista rito. Ang hindi ko lang maintindihan eh kung bakit ba lagi na lang emcee ang pinapagawa sa akin. Gayong alam ko at malamang alam mo rin ito, pwede rin naman akong umawit ah, o sumayaw pa nga. Pero okay na ko. Tse.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Bago ko makalimutan, may inabot si Ina Silverio na orihinal na ticket sa play na dinerehe mo—Monumento. Marso 1997 pa yun! Pinabigay niya kay Nato para ibigay sa mga magulang mo. Nandoon ang mga kasamahan mo sa Philippine Collegian, sila Mike, Amy, Jennifer, nabanggit ko na si Ina at Nova. Marami pang nandoon, mga kakilala mo at mga hindi mo kakilala pero kinikilala ka.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nagkita kami ng inaanak ko nung presscon para sa kampanyang pagpapalaya sa iyo. Nakausap ko rin si Waway. Sinisingil nga ako ni Nanay Waway sa tagal ng hindi ko pagpapakita. Yun daw ang unang pagkakataon na malalaman ng inaanak ko ang tungkol sa pagkakahuli at pagkakakulong mo diyan. Nakikinig siyang mabuti, lalu na nung nagsasalita na ang lolo niya at ibinabahagi ang mga gantimpala, medalya at iba pang dangal na tinamo mo bilang estudyante. Alam mo hindi ko alam yun tungkol sa iyo ha. Ang ibig kong sabihin, alam ko namang matalino ka, napakatalas at lahat-lahat na. Pero bago sa akin na mula pala pagkabata mo ay meron ka nang ganoong moda. Congratulations.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hindi ko alam kung anong sasabihin ko sa inaanak ko. Nagulat na lang ako kasi nung kinakamusta ko siya at tinatanong kung meron ba siyang gusto para sa kanyang birthday na hindi ko napuntahan, bigla siyang nagbe-baby talk. Naisip ko, siguro depensa niya iyon laban sa lahat ng naririnig niya at kasalukuyan niyang nasasaksihan: “Sanggol lang ako, hindi ko ito naiintindihan, huwag kayong mag-alala, wala akong problema rito.” Mabigat yun sa akin at wala rin akong solusyon doon. Wala noon, wala pa rin ngayon.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ganoon na lang talaga kabigat para sa mga anak ng mga detinidong pulitikal ang danas ng nahihiwalay sa magulang. Kaya dapat talagang gawing mas matindi ang ating panawagan laban sa represyong pulitikal at paglabag sa batayang karapatan ng mga naninindigan. Hindi pa ako naging ganoon kalapit sa isang aspeto ng danas ng mga bilanggong pulitikal. Iba pa ang sa iyo, iba pa ang sa anak mo, iba rin ang sa mga magulang at kaanak mo, iba rin yung sa amin ng mga kasama mo.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wala akong dudang makakalaya ka. Sa pag-uusap namin hinggil sa iyong kaso, walang batayan ang pagkakakulong mo diyan. Tayo pa nga ang nasa posisyong maningil sa estado’t militar para sa ginawng iyan sa iyo. Absurdo man, pero gusto kong magpaumanhin sa iyo, na nandiyan ka sa kaarawan mo. Hindi ko kasalanang ikinukulong ka’t pinahihirapan ng mga pasista pero ganon ang pakiramdam. Para bang gusto kong sabihin sa iyo ngayong birthday mo, kung kaharap lang kita, "Pasensya ka na ha, tiisin mo na lang muna ito pero alam mo namang nilalaban natin ito at sa huli't-huli, magwawagi rin tayo."</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Alam mo yung tanawin sa harap ko, kung saan ako tumitipak ng keyboard ngayon? Harapan ng Palma Hall Annex. Mahina ako sa mga pangalan ng mga halaman kaya hindi ko mababanggit dito kung ano-ano ang mga ito. Pero berde ang kalakhan ng kulay. Maulan kaya basa ang aspaltadong lupa. Mahangin kaya magalaw ang mga dahon. Pero bago ang mga iyan merong tatlong layers ng harang. Ang disenyong pakwadra-kwadrado sa gilid ng gusaling ito, ang babasaging bintana na halos singhaba ko at direkta sa harapan ko ay ang mga bakal na korteng diamond. Pwede na ba? Are we in sync? Ang problema ko lang may split-type na aricon dito, kaya fail!</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Alam mo bang ka-birthday mo si Salvador P. Lopez? Ngayong araw ipinagdiriwang ang sentenaryo ng kanyang kapanganakan. May programa mamaya sa pangunugna ng isang komiteng pinanugnguhan ni Prop. Judy Taguiwalo. Malaki ang naging papel ni S.P. Lopez sa pagpapaluwang ng mga kundisyon sa pakikibaka ng mga aktibista noong Diliman Commune. Natitiyak kong nabasa mo rin ang matalas niyang akdang Literature and Society dahil nabanggit mo sa iyong blog na tulad ko, naging guro mo rin pala si Edel Garcellano. Nakatutuwang isipin na mayroon na akong kilalang dalawang mahuhusay at mabubuting anak ng bayan na magka-birthday.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Maligayang kaarawan, Eric. Hanggang sa muli.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">S.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">*sipi mula sa blog ni Ericson: May mali rin pala si Sarah Raymundo. Ang binabanggit niyang pinangunahan kong kantahin ng UP contingent sa makasaysayang mobilisayong anti-bases noong 1991 ay hindi “UP Naming Mahal” kundi “Bayan Ko.” May nakapagsabing ang mga patlang o ilang di-eksaktong tagpo sa alaala ay may ipinapahiwatig na kalusugan ng ating </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">subconscious.</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gusto kong maniwala rito para lamang sabihin na maging ang laylayan ng kamalayan ni Propesora Raymundo ay talagang may katalasan sa pulitika. Ang kilusang kabataang-estudyante ng UP ay hindi mahihinuha kung hindi kikilalanin bilang isang kilusang patriyotiko. Kaya’t ang “UP Naming Mahal” at “Bayan Ko” sa ganitong saysay, ay pawang iisa ang ispeling.</span></span></div></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-21319248919402287702011-05-28T01:55:00.003+08:002012-01-06T04:16:30.348+08:00"Dahil Pa-expire Na ang Friendster" ni Bitoy Crisostomo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Grabe. Medyo naiinis ako kasi puro 'to late reposts kamakailan. Ngunit may mga magagandang dahilan naman kung bakit 'di ako makapag-online nang madalas (maliban sa wala akong pera para sa isang regular internet connection). Ibinabahagi ko ang isang online post ng isang matalik na kaibigan (at siya ay isa sa mga dahilang hinding-hindi ko makalilimutan ang summer na ito), madalas na kakulitan, at mabuting militanteng aktibistang si Victor Crisostomo o "Bitoy" para sa karamihan. At bilang huling pagbati na rin sa kanyang rakenrol na ina, patuloy kang nabubuhay sa mga taong binibigyan mo ng inspirasyon, Ka Jeng. Pagpupugay!</span></span></span></i><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">eto yung mga lumabas nung ginoogle ko ang "jeng crisostomo". siyempre yung mga relevant sa buhay ko. hahaha (actually dalawa sila. igoogle niyo na lang yung isa. haha)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">serious note: ating pagpugayan ang mga inalay ng mga dakilang martir. hindi lang si nanay/ka jeng kundi pati sina chit simbulan (kabiyak ni roland simbulan) at iba pa. sabi nga ng kanta, "it is not the matter of death." haha at patuloy na magtasa, magwasto at magsikhay para hindi masayang ang kanilang ambag sa pakikibaka!</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">birthday nga pala niya ngayong mayo 17. haha</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Jeng Crisostomo: A Life Not Ordinary</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">by Alexander Martin Remollino Wednesday, Sep. 08, 2004 at 2:35 AM</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/1440.php)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Short sketch of the late Lourdes "Jeng" Crisostomo. This is lifted from the article "A Legacy of Activism," published in Bulatlat, October 13-19, 2002.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lourdes “Jeng” Espiritu-Crisostomo is the campaign officer of the militant group Bayan.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Her membership in the Student Catholic Action while studying at the UP Integrated School (UPIS) exposed her early to poverty. In 1980, she joined the Student Christian Movement (SCM) when she was still a college sophomore. Among the major issues that confronted the students at the time was the proposed Education Act.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A month after she joined SCM, she attended her first rally. It was supposed to be held in Mendiola , the road leading to the presidential palace, but was violently dispersed upon reaching Legarda, the street before Mendiola. It was there that Crisostomo got her first taste of state brutality. It was not to be the last.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Two months later, during a lightning rally commemorating the declaration of martial law, she was arrested and detained. She was charged with the crime of inciting rebellion and spent three months at the Bicutan Rehabilitation Center. If detention was intended to make her swear off activism, the opposite happened. For at the time, also detained in Bicutan were Satur Ocampo, Pepe Luneta, Fidel Agcaoili, Nelia Sancho, and other personalities of the left.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After Crisostomo’s release, she helped the detainees and their families. She also decided to go full-time into organizing.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When her younger child however was diagnosed as having learning disabilities, Crisostomo decided to go back to school and took up education. She wanted to be able to more effectively reach out to her son by learning how to teach autistic children. She at first tried to do it by reading books on the subject and even went as far as working as a teacher aid in his school. The meager pay and her husband’s prodding finally convinced her to enroll formally at UP.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When her son had successfully reached a satisfactory level of competence, she went back to organizing. This time, among teachers. She was later invited to join Bayan in 2001 and now holds the campaign position, a job crucial to an organization like Bayan. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With Aubrey SC Makilan</span></span></i></span><br />
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</div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-32144468531085611042011-05-28T01:15:00.003+08:002012-01-06T04:16:14.796+08:00Che Guevara's Letters to His Mother<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The following is a Facebook note tagged by one of my friends on Mother's Day. I wish I could write the same way to my own Mama. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">September 24 1955</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dear Mother </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In time the Communist Party will be put out of circulation. Who knows what will meanwhile have become of your wandering son. Perhaps he will have decided to set up shop in his native country , or to begin a life of real struggle.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Perhaps one of the bullets so common in the Caribbean will put an end to my days (this is neither idle talk nor a concrete possibility: it's just that a lot of bullets fly around in these parts). Perhaps I'll simply keep wandering long enough to complete a solid education and take the pleasures I have awarded myself for this life, before seriously devoting myself to the pursuit of my ideal. Things develop with tremendous speed, and no one can predict where they will be next year and why.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I don't know if you got the formal announcement of my marriage and the [imminent] arrival of an heir. [He and Hilda Gadea married at Tepoztlan on August 1955.]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Chau. Kisses to all the family, and greetings from Hilda.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">[apparently from prison]</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mexico City, July 15 1956 </span></span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I am not Christ or a philanthropist, Mother; 2I fight for the things in which I believe, with the weapons in my reach, and I try to leave the other lying flat instead of letting myself be nailed to a cross. They will release Fidel Castro tomorrow, the head of the Movement. If this happens as they said, there would be just two of us left behind bars.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If I ever detect in myself that the sacred flame has given way to a timid votive flicker, the least I can then do is vomit over my own shit. As to your appeal for moderate egoism, that is, for common lily-livered individualism, I must tell you that I have done a lot to wipe him out - I mean, not exactly that unfamiliar spineless type, but the other bohemian type, unconcerned about his neighbour and imbued with a sense of self- sufficiency deriving from an awareness (mistaken or not) of my own strength. During these prison days and the period of training that preceded them, I have identified totally with my comrades in the cause.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I remember a phrase that once seemed to me idiotic or at least bizarre, referring to such a total identification among the embers of a fighting body that the very concept of the "I" disappeared and gave way to the concept of the "we". It was a communist morality and may, of course, appear to be a doctrinaire exaggeration, but in reality it was (and is) a beautiful thing to be able to feel that stirring of "we".</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It is true that, after I have set wrongs [right] in Cuba, I'll go somewhere else; and it is also true that I'd be really done for if I were shut up in some bureaucratic office or allergy clinic. When all is said and done, though, it seems to me that this pain - the pain of a mother entering old age who wants her son alive - is a feeling that should be respected, a feeling that I have a duty to heed. I would like to see you, not only to comfort you but to comfort myself for my sporadic and unconfessable yearnings. Mother, I kiss you and promise to be with you if there is nothing new. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Your son, el Che</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mexico City, [probably November 15 1956]</span></span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dear Mother </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My long-term aim is to see something of Europe, if possible to live there, but that is getting more and more difficult. With the kind of illness I have, it seems to keep getting worse.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now that is all over. The only clear thing is that the 10 years of wandering look like being more (unless unforeseen circumstances put an end to all wandering), but it will be very different from the kind I imagined. Now, when I get to a new country, it won't be to look around and visit museums or ruins, but also (because that still interests me) to join the people's struggle. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Chau</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(approximately October 1956)</span></span></strong></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dear Mama </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Previously I devoted myself for better or worse to medicine, and spent my spare time informally studying Saint Karl [Marx]. The new stage in my life requires me to change the order: now Saint Karl comes first; he is the axis and will remain so for however many years the spheroid has room for me on its outer mantle; medicine is a more or less trivial diversion. Next comes the tough part, The signs are good. They augur victory. But if they are wrong I think that I'll be able to say like a poet you don't know: "I shall carry beneath the earth only the sorrow of an unfinished song."</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To avoid pre-mortem pathos, this letter will appear when things are really getting hot, and then you will know that your son, in a sun-drenched land of the Americas, is cursing himself for not having studied enough surgery to help a wounded man, and cursing the Mexican government that did not let him perfect his already respectable marksmanship so that he could knock over puppets with greater agility. The struggle will be with our backs to the wall, as in the hymns, until victory or death.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Noong ika-11 ng Abril, 2011, isang maaliwalas na Lunes, muling nasunog ang Barangay Central. Natupok ang 29 na kabahayan malapit sa PAG-ASA at nawalan ng tirahan ang mahigit-kumulang na 90 pamilya. Ito ay ikalawa nang sunog matapos ang pangyayari noong ika-7 ng Pebrero ng parehong taon, at halos ‘di na mabilang na insidente ng pagkasunog sa mga barangay na nasasaklaw ng proyektong Quezon City Central Business District (QC-CBD). Simula 2010 ay pinalalayas na ang mga residente sa North at East Triangle Areas at ipinalilipat sa Montalban, Rizal, isang napakalayong lugar na nakapuwesto sa “fault line” (unang tatamaan ng lindol o bagyo kapag gumuho ang lupa) at kung saan walang tubig, kuryente, at malinaw na kabuhayan.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Maliban sa ‘di-makatarungang taktikang “voluntary demolition” ng National Housing Authority (NHA), kung saan kinukumbinsi nila ang mga residenteng kusang maggiba ng sariling bahay upang hindi maiipit sa legal na usapin ang NHA, nariyan din ang taktikang, “sunog.” Ang sunog noong ika-7 ng Pebrero ay nagdulot ng kawalan ng bahay ng 4 000 pamilya sa Botanical Area, Brgy. Central. At imbes na magpokus ang gobyerno sa pagtulong sa mga nasunugan at pag-abot sa kanila ng mga kagamitan upang itayong muli ang mga bahay, tila ginamit pa ng NHA ang pagkakataon para mapaalis sila at ilipat sa malalayong relokasyon. Ang kumalat na balita sa komunidad, sanhi raw ng sunog ang paghugot ng hose mula sa tangke ng LPG at sadyang pagpapasindi sa tumagas na gas ng nag-aaway na mag-asawa. Hindi kailanman ito nakumpirma ng awtoridad, gayunpama’y walang dudang misteryoso ang mga sirkunstansya. Hindi malayo ang pagkakaiba sa natagpuang pusang amoy-gasolina malapit sa nasunog na mga kabahayan sa Brgy. Bagong Pag-Asa noong 2010. At wala rin itong masyadong pinag-iba sa bulung-bulungang isang misteryosong pagsabog, ‘di-umano, ang nagdulot ng ikalawang sunog sa Brgy. Central noong ika-11 ng Abril. May mga residente ring nagsabing may nakita raw silang isang lalaking may hawak na sulo. Hindi imposible ang sadyang pagsunog, pagka’t ayon na rin sa karanasan ng aping maralitang lungsod, </span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ito ang pinakamadaling paraan ng pagpapalayas</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Kagaya noong Pebrero matapos ang unang sunog, noong gabi mismo ng ika-11 ng Abril, ay may pinadala na ang NHA na mga awtoridad upang harangin ang mga eryang nasunog nang sa gayon ay hindi pagtirikan ng bahay ng mga nasunugan. Kukumbinsihin silang magpa-relocate sa Montalban, pumirma ng waiver, at magbayad buwan-buwan sa loob ng 30 taon para sa isang bahay na nasa fault line, walang kuryente, walang tubig, at wala ring malapit na kabuhayan.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ang lahat ng ito ay mauugat sa ambisyosong QC-CBD, isang multi-billion joint project ng AyaIa Land Inc. (ALI) at NHA na may basbas ng lokal na pamahalaan ng lungsod ng Quezon at ng mismong pangulong si Benigno “PNoy” Aquino III. Bukod sa malakihang demolisyon at displacement ng mga nakatira sa pagtatayuan nito, kasama rin sa balangkas ng QC-CBD ang pagpapagawa ng University of the Philippines Diliman Science and Technology Park—na maaaring magdulot muli ng pagtataas ng matrikula dahil sa pribatisasyon ng nasabing unibersidad—ang pagsanib ng East Avenue hospitals bilang isang ospital na ang pokus ay “medical tourism,” ang pag-alis ng ilang government agencies sa North at East Triangles, at ang pagpapatayo ng maraming condominium, call center, shopping mall, park, at iba’t-iba pang malalaking business venture na ang makikinabang lang naman ay ang mga pribado at malalaking kumpanyang kikita ng bilyon-bilyong piso.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Matapos ang pinakaunang pagtatangka ng mga awtoridad na mag-demolish, naitatag ang </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Contra-CBD</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, isang alyansa ng lahat ng kilusang masa at iba't-ibang mga organisasyon ng mga komunidad na nasasaklaw ng QC-CBD. Tinatayang 122,000 na maralitang lungsod at libo-libong government employees sa North at East Triangles ang unti-unting pinapatay ng proyektong ito. Pinapanawagan ng Contra-CBD na </span></span></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">huwag tayong matakot sa mga nananakot at nanghaharang ng panirikan ng bahay</span></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. Karapatan nating igiit na hindi makatarungan ang pagpapalayas ng NHA at pagpapadala sa mga residente sa malalayong lugar na walang seguridad at maayos na kabuhayan. </span></span></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Itayong muli ang ating mga bahay!</span></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Huwag maniwala sa mga panlilinlang ng NHA at ilang sektor ng pamahalaang lokal ng QC.</span></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Barikadang Bayan ang solusyon sa pambubusabos na ito ng rehimeng Aquino, gaya ng ipinakita ng Sitio San Roque.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Itigil ang pagsunog! Tutulan at labanan ang demolisyon!</span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Igiit at ipaglaban ang karapatan sa kabuhayan at paninirahan!</span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Tutulan at labanan ang pribatisasyon at malawakang tanggalan sa mga ahensya ng gobyerno at mga pampublikong ospital!</span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ibasura ang makadyuhang proyektong QC-CBD! Labanan ang programang Public-Private Partnership (PPP) ng kontra-maralitang Rehimeng US-Aquino! </span></span></span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">TimeZone, Trinoma Mall, kuha mula sahttp://racoma.com.ph/archives/my-misadventure-at-timezone-trinoma</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>Larita Kutsaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165040182465796041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532656276113416378.post-23323926361640275632011-04-11T02:17:00.010+08:002012-01-06T04:15:07.266+08:00Kung 'Di Dahil sa Araw na 'To<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kung 'di dahil sa araw na 'to,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Malamang Jejemon ako</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">O b</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">aliw kay Justin Bieber (*nilunok ang isusuka*).</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Baka nga isipin kong</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Totoong tao pa si Pink Floyd.</span></span></b></span><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kung 'di dahil sa araw na 'to,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Para 'kong nagsasambang aso</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">O galit sa mga manyak na pro-RH Bill (like, eeewwwww).</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Siguro nagkukumpisal araw-araw</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Tapos naka-"replay" pala mga kasalanan.</span></span></b></span><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kung 'di dahil sa araw na 'to,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">'Nyeta, dilaw at liberal ako</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">O suki ng Facebook causes (pero hanggang dun lang ha).</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Marahil nagsasambit ng "make"</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Bago gumamit ng pandiwa (hal.: Are you gonna "make" punta here?).</span></span></b></span><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kung 'di dahil sa araw na 'to,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Tingin ko, wala akong paki</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">O meron naman, kaso iba priorities ko e (*balik sa paga-"update" ng status update*).</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Tingin ko ata, okey lang naman</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kung maging Ayala University ang UP (baka magka-mall pa sa campus!).</span></span></b></span><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kung 'di dahil sa araw na 'to,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Chaka ang taste ko sa musika</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">O maniniwalang lahat ay nadadaan sa reporma (revise CARP , reform UNA, etcetera).</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sus, baka nga iwas pa'ko</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sa usapang Marxista (OMG!!!). </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ang araw na 'to a</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">y isang</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Malaking ambag sa'king kamulatan.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Buti na lang sa araw na 'to, </span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Pinanganak ang Numero Unong Lalaki sa buhay ko.</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Papa, </span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Maligayang Kaarawan!</span></span></b></span><br />
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