July 28,2010
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
About
July 28,2010
ABOUT
My name is Quirico Monte de Ramos Gorpido, Jr. I was born in ST.Bernard,Southern Leyte, but I grew up in Ozamis City,Misamis Occidental,Mindanao,where my maternal grandmother, Marcela L. Almendras (deceased) has decided to move together with the whole family and settled there until her demise.
Yours truly is a product of combination of different groups of Filipinos indisputably dominated by their respective inherent Mother Tongues. My mother Lourdes Almendras Monte de Ramos (deceased) who is from Southern Leyte speaks Cebuano. My father Quirico Siervo Gorpido, Sr.(deceased) speaks Waray-Waray and hails from Northern Samar. My mestiza maternal grandmother Marcela L. Almendras (deceased), a half-Spaniard has her roots in Ilocos Norte. My maternal grandfather, Tomas C. Monte de Ramos (deceased) is also from Southern Leyte.
I studied in grades one and two at the Misamis Institute, later, re-named Misamis College(when I was in high school).Sometime in the 1980s,it changed its status to Misamis University.
However, I studied in grades three and four in St.Bernard when my mother, who became an early widow, has decided to move to the place together with my younger brother Emmanuel. After finishing the two level grades, we received a telegram instructing us to go back to Ozamis because Lola Ilang has died. There I studied in grades five and six at the Ozamis City Central School, where one of my classmates, a son of a medical practitioner, Artemio Tuaño Engracia,Jr.,later a UP-graduate Journalism student, now promoted as news editor at the Philippine Daily Inquirer, after serving as the paper’s one of its Sportswriters .
Three years after I graduated in high school at the Immaculate Conception College in Ozamis City as a working student, I decided to go to Manila to see the place and to look for a job. I have experienced working different manual jobs until I was able to work in 2 private companies:1)at the Communication Foundation For Asia in Sta.Mesa,Manila and 2)at Merck,Inc,located at Salcedo Village, Makati City. Here in Maasin City, my base,I was once working at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources(DENR) which holds its office at the Capitol Site, where the Provincial Capitol is also located, for more than a year.
While living in Metro Manila I have enrolled as a self-supporting student at ICS for a home study course in journalism. Nevertheless, at the time I have lost my job, I was forced to stop. Although a journalism undergraduate, I was and I’m practicing what I have learned in my study.
For many years I was a correspondent to the Tacloban-based regional weekly, The Reporter, whose founder was a Maasinhon by the name of Agustin “Guz” Cerro Arnaiz, Sr.(deceased).It has its Maasin Branch office in brgy.Mantahan. But it closed shop after 34 years of serving the public.Recently, however,it was revived by one of his daughters on an online edition only.
Later I became a correspondent to other newspapers one after the other also for several years. I was a former correspondent to three Cebu-based newspapers: Visayan Express (now defunct), The Freeman and the Cebu Daily News. In Tacloban City I was also a former correspondent/news contributor to the weekly Tribune for three years and one year for the Leyte Samar Daily Express.
After I have learned little basic lessons in computer in 2007, thru the sponsorship of a kind, generous and good standing businessman, I applied again as a Correspondent at the LSDE during the last week of November 2007 by calling its Editor-In-Chief Vicente S. Labro. He then referred my application call to the publisher/owner, Dalmacio Grafil who accepted and approved my application.
The Blog
This blog will and shall contain miscellaneous articles: news stories, opinion/commentary articles, feature stories, anecdotes, personal and impersonal essays, other writings and most probably some news pictures and other pictures consider relevant by yours truly, after I can save some amount of money in the future more enough to buy a digital camera.
ABOUT
My name is Quirico Monte de Ramos Gorpido, Jr. I was born in ST.Bernard,Southern Leyte, but I grew up in Ozamis City,Misamis Occidental,Mindanao,where my maternal grandmother, Marcela L. Almendras (deceased) has decided to move together with the whole family and settled there until her demise.
Yours truly is a product of combination of different groups of Filipinos indisputably dominated by their respective inherent Mother Tongues. My mother Lourdes Almendras Monte de Ramos (deceased) who is from Southern Leyte speaks Cebuano. My father Quirico Siervo Gorpido, Sr.(deceased) speaks Waray-Waray and hails from Northern Samar. My mestiza maternal grandmother Marcela L. Almendras (deceased), a half-Spaniard has her roots in Ilocos Norte. My maternal grandfather, Tomas C. Monte de Ramos (deceased) is also from Southern Leyte.
I studied in grades one and two at the Misamis Institute, later, re-named Misamis College(when I was in high school).Sometime in the 1980s,it changed its status to Misamis University.
However, I studied in grades three and four in St.Bernard when my mother, who became an early widow, has decided to move to the place together with my younger brother Emmanuel. After finishing the two level grades, we received a telegram instructing us to go back to Ozamis because Lola Ilang has died. There I studied in grades five and six at the Ozamis City Central School, where one of my classmates, a son of a medical practitioner, Artemio Tuaño Engracia,Jr.,later a UP-graduate Journalism student, now promoted as news editor at the Philippine Daily Inquirer, after serving as the paper’s one of its Sportswriters .
Three years after I graduated in high school at the Immaculate Conception College in Ozamis City as a working student, I decided to go to Manila to see the place and to look for a job. I have experienced working different manual jobs until I was able to work in 2 private companies:1)at the Communication Foundation For Asia in Sta.Mesa,Manila and 2)at Merck,Inc,located at Salcedo Village, Makati City. Here in Maasin City, my base,I was once working at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources(DENR) which holds its office at the Capitol Site, where the Provincial Capitol is also located, for more than a year.
While living in Metro Manila I have enrolled as a self-supporting student at ICS for a home study course in journalism. Nevertheless, at the time I have lost my job, I was forced to stop. Although a journalism undergraduate, I was and I’m practicing what I have learned in my study.
For many years I was a correspondent to the Tacloban-based regional weekly, The Reporter, whose founder was a Maasinhon by the name of Agustin “Guz” Cerro Arnaiz, Sr.(deceased).It has its Maasin Branch office in brgy.Mantahan. But it closed shop after 34 years of serving the public.Recently, however,it was revived by one of his daughters on an online edition only.
Later I became a correspondent to other newspapers one after the other also for several years. I was a former correspondent to three Cebu-based newspapers: Visayan Express (now defunct), The Freeman and the Cebu Daily News. In Tacloban City I was also a former correspondent/news contributor to the weekly Tribune for three years and one year for the Leyte Samar Daily Express.
After I have learned little basic lessons in computer in 2007, thru the sponsorship of a kind, generous and good standing businessman, I applied again as a Correspondent at the LSDE during the last week of November 2007 by calling its Editor-In-Chief Vicente S. Labro. He then referred my application call to the publisher/owner, Dalmacio Grafil who accepted and approved my application.
The Blog
This blog will and shall contain miscellaneous articles: news stories, opinion/commentary articles, feature stories, anecdotes, personal and impersonal essays, other writings and most probably some news pictures and other pictures consider relevant by yours truly, after I can save some amount of money in the future more enough to buy a digital camera.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Feature:Some Small But Helpful/Healthful Tips
July 22.2010
Feature:Some Small But helpful/Healthful Tips
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
There are some small but helpful and healthful tips that some people tend to ignore but is actually need to be applied and practiced in our everyday lives. Here are some of them:
1) Avoid putting plastic cup for rice measure and plastic ladle to scoop the rice inside hot cooked rice after its usage. Putting plastic utensils of any kind in hot surroundings like hot rice would trigger a quick release of its chemical content and will mix in the hot rice that could be eaten by members of the family or customers who would be buying the hot rice.
The hot cooked rice contaminated by the chemical or chemicals (which we do not know whether it’s safe or not for human ingestion), if consumed in regular basis would make person/persons sick later in life. It’s better to use wooden cup, wooden ladle or stainless utensils to measure or scoop hot rice or hot foods/viands.
2) Avoid placing plastic containers containing potable water near a hot functioning machine or hot generator, or in a place where it could be hit by the sun’s rays. It has a similar effect with plastic utensils put in hot rice or hot food-that it will easily released chemical/chemicals contain in plastic container used as water depository. Drinking this kind of “exposed water” in regular basis will also make the drinkers sick later in life. The most common disease that ingested chemicals in plastic will cause is, according to medical findings, cancer.
If some chemicals in making plastic wares/utensils were harmful or toxic why not exclude these elements in the manufacturing of plastic products? This is but logical decision to any prudent and compassionate manufacturers/makers whose main concern is not only profit and services but also the welfare and healthful sustenance of their customers/buyers.
3) Avoid using plastic ladle in steering or churning hot food or cooked viand put under fire. Submerged in hot water or hot soup, the plastic utensil will easily released its chemical content, which we do not know for sure if it’s safe or not, as we ingest it when we eat our meals. Continuity in doing this bad unhealthy style always or even occasionally is bad for our health and that of others like customers, if we are selling foods. Forego in transferring soft drinks you buy at the store into plastic wrappers. Better to drink it direct from its original containers. Putting soft drinks inside plastic wrappers will create a chemical reaction between acidic beverage and the plastic you use, which is also bad and harmful to your health.
Why use plastic utensils that contain no guidelines on how to use it properly to make it safe for us, users and consumers? Again, if only you want to use plastic ladle or anything made of plastic in all its form for food preparation and for servings, use it only when everything edible it touches or in contact are already in its cool state. Other safe means to use are stainless steel utensils or wooden utensils like wooden ladle, wooden cup, wooden glass, wooden food tray and the like.
4)On the other hand, it was reported in the popular Manila broadsheet that BFAD’s findings after examining the imported Turkey’s flour, revealed that it contains a chemical called aflatoxin,which based on medical statement can cause cancer to humans. Since the chemical element is harmful to man, it should not be allowed to be circulated for public consumption.
We hope that the Department of Health will make a directive instructing all bakery owners and bakers in the whole country to avoid mixing it with safe flours and be more concern on the health and welfare of their customers and the buying public rather than profit. They should have nothing to worry if they cannot get this lower cost flour. Sacrificing profit in the name of compassion, empathy, goodwill, mercy and altruistic concern are more valuable and meaningful in life than material gain, which can be earned by businessmen thru lawful and legal means.
5) Since a singer’s voice is his/her capital outlay or investment, that make him/her click in the entertainment world, It’s his /her responsibility to protect his/he voice from early damage. After each vocalization practice singers must avoid drinking cold water or hot tea right away. If a singer has the urge to drink because of thirst, rest first your vocal chords from 20 to 25 minutes. But drink only naturally cool water or mildly hot tea hot.
Singers should include drinking one glass of mildly hot fresh ginger tea 3 times a week. It will help enhance the flexibility of a singer’s voice pitch. Prefer chewing small piece of fresh ginger instead of menthol candy. It will also quickly relieve an itchy throat. Drinking or eating juicy fruits should be preferred than soft drinks. Whatever is the surrounding condition or circumstances, singers must shun drinking any ice-cold potable water or liquid. Protect your voice even if you have already reached the retirement age.
Changes of voices among singers are natural process just like the process of growing old. But avoiding what is bad or destructive for one’s voice will make a big difference. As you aged the changes would be gradual, not abrupt. It will also be a good and wise approach to make collections of all albums and video tapes that any singer has recorded. One can re-collect his/her popularity in retrospection by playing them from time to time on schedule all his/her records and concert tours. That would be healthful recollections of one singer’s reminiscence as a younger and active entertainer/musician in the past.
6) Prefer to use dark brown sugar as your sweetener with some other ingredients in making bread, cakes, biscuits, pastries and in all kinds of bakery products. It contains vitamins and minerals needed for the body. Refined sugar or white sugar, candidly speaking, has no more vitamins and minerals. What is left is only sweet. What is wrong and what is bad if your cake, bread, biscuits or pastries look brownish?
If we can eat chocolate cake that looks black or pitch black, with gusto, why can’t we eat also cake that looks brownish in color? Any kind of natural color is safe, not only white, provided the preparation is conducted in hygienic ways. If you can find the traditional natural dark brown sugar (moscado in Negros Provinces) in your place, called in the local folks in Southern Leyte as binagol (dark brown sugar poured inside a half-cut coconut shell while still hot in its sticky liquid form) prefer to buy this kind of sugar.
This locally-made sugar famous in Southern Leyte whose main juice is from the planted sugar canes in the field were cooked inside a huge vat in the middle of the farm or at the intusan.However, this kind of naturally prepared brown sugar devoid of any man-made chemical are no longer seen in Maasin City for several years now.
Sometime in the 1980s and 90s this kind of sugar was available in some market stores and small stores here. During tabo,held on Saturdays at the old market and now at the new reclamation area, where the bus terminal and the new market were located, hundreds of binagol sugar were wrapped in unas(dry old banana leaves)placed inside several crates and displayed it aligned with other farm products. Most of the consumers and marketgoers would prefer to buy it. Its availability on display during the aforesaid market time (tabo) was on regular basis. At the store one can buy it by retail and its good for café,milk,soman,fruitbread and for other edible food that needs some sweetener as well as for moderate eating. Some cook housewives would use it in making of biko and latik as the right pair for the newly- peeled breadfruit during its season. This kind of dark brown sugar is also good for persons sick with jaundice.
We hope that the sugar planters in St.Bernard and San Juan, the two municipalities where this kind of sugar was made will revive the binagol by planting again the sugar canes in their farms so that we can buy it again at the public markets in different municipalities of Southern Leyte. As another source of income, the revival of planting the sugar canes in some farms in the province is worth the farmers’ efforts. Agriculturists and agriculture technicians in the province must provide technical and material supports to the local farmers and help persuade and encourage them to revive the planting of sugar canes in various farms of the province’s municipalities.
7) For persons with hemorrhoids they should avoid getting constipated. Frequent or occasional constipation both would worsen the persons’ conditions that are affected with such disease. See to it that your rice during meals, if dry, must be softened with fish soup, vegetable soup or any other soup you like. Before eating your meals, always drink 2 glasses of water. This is to avoid, whenever possible, the initial hardening of the stool that would make your pushing efforts laborious when defecating.
If any kind of soup,( avoid fatty/oily soup, except fish oil),is not available, eat a ripe regular size mango or a regular sliced ripe papaya simultaneously with your dry rice to make it wetly together with your viand. Chew thoroughly your food for easy digestion.
Every afternoon at four or five drink 2 or 3 glasses of naturally cool water. This is if you feel that your stomach is okay after eating ripe mango or papaya during lunch. But if your stomach sounded some discomfort, then refrain from drinking water. Instead eat an apple or 2 sans water. At supper time, when you feel that your churning stomach is calming down, drink one and a half or 2 glasses of water before you start eating. Whenever the situation or condition permits, always do this kind of preventive and helpful measure regularly to free you from unwarranted constipation.
However, the best solution for the individuals who are afflicted with hemorrhoids (almoranas in local term), according to a medical practitioner, is surgery. Morover, despite of the removal of the disease, it’s still advisable for all people to avoid constipation by practicing all the things that I have stated here.Constipation,according to a physician surgeon, is responsible in the development of a person’s hemorrhoid. The injurious irritations cause by every movement of hard stool during bowel removal passing the intestinal canal near the anus would gradually, as years pass by, develop into hemorrhoid.
8) Using aluminum bowl or plate to put kinilaw (sliced fresh flesh of raw fish with vinegar and spices)is not recommendable. Try pouring small amount of vinegar in an aluminum bowl or plate and allow it to stay for at least 20 to 25 minutes. Then stir it for several seconds. Taste it and you will notice that it’s now has a bitter taste.Obviuosly, there’s a chemical reaction between the vinegar and the aluminum utensil and it’s bad for your health if you ingest it.
Thus avoid using such kind of ware.Rather, use either ceramic or glass bowl/plate to put and soak your kinilaw with vinegar and spices for at least 40 minutes before eating it with cooked camote (sweet potato) or your bahaw nga kan-on (cooked rice that already lasted from 5 to 6 hours).Also refrain from ingesting vinegar from your kinilaw leftovers. But you can eat the spices if you like. Why? Because it’s likewise bad for your health. Proof? A female friend here in Maasin City who habitually drank vinegar with some salt use as sawsawan (home made sauce) for her half-ripe papaya eventually got sick with leukemia. Medications and blood transfusions had become ineffective to arrest her self-inflicted disease. She departed so prematurely to the other world.
I also know a man who was fond of eating kinilaw and had the habit of drinking vinegar with spices. After a few years of his fetish to drink the acidic substance, he unwittingly wrought damage to his stomach and intestines. When he felt some bad pains on his abdomen and was examined by an internist, it was diagnosed as cancer.
9) If a teenager has noticed that he/she has a good voice, better develop and improve your voice earlier by practicing vocalization exercises regularly. If you have the means, enroll in a voice lesson in your place. Prefer to practice singing meaningful and melodious songs that you like and suits the quality of your voice.
To develop or to improve one’s voice takes years to achieve. Be patient and don’t lost faith. In every undertaking or endeavor we always need patience, hard work and determination. Join and complete in singing contest in your place and in the neighboring towns to expose yourself to the public. Have a goal as an aspiring singer.
In case you become sad or in sorrow select songs to sing that can help relieve and ease your emotional distress. Singing can also help reduce stress. Singing regularly, whether you’re sad or in a happy mood, according to experts, can help slow down the process of aging. This is aside from eating regularly fresh fruits and vegetables that are in seasons.
Personally, I have observed that amateur or professional singers, most particularly those who also compose/write songs have looked younger than their real ages. Being generous, kind and compassionate towards fellowmen and frequently laughing and smiling to people, especially to loved ones, relatives and friends, it was revealed, also contribute to looking younger than ones age.
10) Always shun entering right away inside an air-conditioned room/office if you are exposed to the heat of the sun for even only 30 minutes time and even if you are in a hurry. Always allow yourself to cool down for at least 30 to 60 minutes, depending upon the degree of heat that you are exposed.
Immediate or sudden change of temperature (from heat to cold) has a very bad effect to ones’ body system. It will make you sick first with initial cold and accompanying fever. This condition will commonly graduate later into hard cough that will last for several days or weeks. And that’s another expenses of medicines which you can readily avoid if you have used your prudence and common sense.
If you are a utilityman/messenger in an office/company and has to report immediately to your boss, try testing a co-worker friend and request him to let him bring something on your behalf to your head or somebody higher in rank than yours who instructed you to do an errand.
Convey in polite manner thru your friend some explanation address to yours boss why you’re still outside the office. Better still to call your boss thru your cellphone and convey your explanation of your inhibition why you let a co-worker do what you yourself have to do. Although this is somewhat unethical for a messenger/utilityman to do, but the urgency of the situation and the circumstance is inevitably unavoidable that telling the real reason why you act that way , is the only way that your boss or employer would be able to sympathize with your concern on health. Understanding and thoughtful boss/employer will likewise understand your special concern, particularly if he/she has experienced it himself/herself the adverse effect of entering right away inside an air-con office after long exposure from sunlight and got sick.(Quirico M.Gorpido,Jr.)
Feature:Some Small But helpful/Healthful Tips
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
There are some small but helpful and healthful tips that some people tend to ignore but is actually need to be applied and practiced in our everyday lives. Here are some of them:
1) Avoid putting plastic cup for rice measure and plastic ladle to scoop the rice inside hot cooked rice after its usage. Putting plastic utensils of any kind in hot surroundings like hot rice would trigger a quick release of its chemical content and will mix in the hot rice that could be eaten by members of the family or customers who would be buying the hot rice.
The hot cooked rice contaminated by the chemical or chemicals (which we do not know whether it’s safe or not for human ingestion), if consumed in regular basis would make person/persons sick later in life. It’s better to use wooden cup, wooden ladle or stainless utensils to measure or scoop hot rice or hot foods/viands.
2) Avoid placing plastic containers containing potable water near a hot functioning machine or hot generator, or in a place where it could be hit by the sun’s rays. It has a similar effect with plastic utensils put in hot rice or hot food-that it will easily released chemical/chemicals contain in plastic container used as water depository. Drinking this kind of “exposed water” in regular basis will also make the drinkers sick later in life. The most common disease that ingested chemicals in plastic will cause is, according to medical findings, cancer.
If some chemicals in making plastic wares/utensils were harmful or toxic why not exclude these elements in the manufacturing of plastic products? This is but logical decision to any prudent and compassionate manufacturers/makers whose main concern is not only profit and services but also the welfare and healthful sustenance of their customers/buyers.
3) Avoid using plastic ladle in steering or churning hot food or cooked viand put under fire. Submerged in hot water or hot soup, the plastic utensil will easily released its chemical content, which we do not know for sure if it’s safe or not, as we ingest it when we eat our meals. Continuity in doing this bad unhealthy style always or even occasionally is bad for our health and that of others like customers, if we are selling foods. Forego in transferring soft drinks you buy at the store into plastic wrappers. Better to drink it direct from its original containers. Putting soft drinks inside plastic wrappers will create a chemical reaction between acidic beverage and the plastic you use, which is also bad and harmful to your health.
Why use plastic utensils that contain no guidelines on how to use it properly to make it safe for us, users and consumers? Again, if only you want to use plastic ladle or anything made of plastic in all its form for food preparation and for servings, use it only when everything edible it touches or in contact are already in its cool state. Other safe means to use are stainless steel utensils or wooden utensils like wooden ladle, wooden cup, wooden glass, wooden food tray and the like.
4)On the other hand, it was reported in the popular Manila broadsheet that BFAD’s findings after examining the imported Turkey’s flour, revealed that it contains a chemical called aflatoxin,which based on medical statement can cause cancer to humans. Since the chemical element is harmful to man, it should not be allowed to be circulated for public consumption.
We hope that the Department of Health will make a directive instructing all bakery owners and bakers in the whole country to avoid mixing it with safe flours and be more concern on the health and welfare of their customers and the buying public rather than profit. They should have nothing to worry if they cannot get this lower cost flour. Sacrificing profit in the name of compassion, empathy, goodwill, mercy and altruistic concern are more valuable and meaningful in life than material gain, which can be earned by businessmen thru lawful and legal means.
5) Since a singer’s voice is his/her capital outlay or investment, that make him/her click in the entertainment world, It’s his /her responsibility to protect his/he voice from early damage. After each vocalization practice singers must avoid drinking cold water or hot tea right away. If a singer has the urge to drink because of thirst, rest first your vocal chords from 20 to 25 minutes. But drink only naturally cool water or mildly hot tea hot.
Singers should include drinking one glass of mildly hot fresh ginger tea 3 times a week. It will help enhance the flexibility of a singer’s voice pitch. Prefer chewing small piece of fresh ginger instead of menthol candy. It will also quickly relieve an itchy throat. Drinking or eating juicy fruits should be preferred than soft drinks. Whatever is the surrounding condition or circumstances, singers must shun drinking any ice-cold potable water or liquid. Protect your voice even if you have already reached the retirement age.
Changes of voices among singers are natural process just like the process of growing old. But avoiding what is bad or destructive for one’s voice will make a big difference. As you aged the changes would be gradual, not abrupt. It will also be a good and wise approach to make collections of all albums and video tapes that any singer has recorded. One can re-collect his/her popularity in retrospection by playing them from time to time on schedule all his/her records and concert tours. That would be healthful recollections of one singer’s reminiscence as a younger and active entertainer/musician in the past.
6) Prefer to use dark brown sugar as your sweetener with some other ingredients in making bread, cakes, biscuits, pastries and in all kinds of bakery products. It contains vitamins and minerals needed for the body. Refined sugar or white sugar, candidly speaking, has no more vitamins and minerals. What is left is only sweet. What is wrong and what is bad if your cake, bread, biscuits or pastries look brownish?
If we can eat chocolate cake that looks black or pitch black, with gusto, why can’t we eat also cake that looks brownish in color? Any kind of natural color is safe, not only white, provided the preparation is conducted in hygienic ways. If you can find the traditional natural dark brown sugar (moscado in Negros Provinces) in your place, called in the local folks in Southern Leyte as binagol (dark brown sugar poured inside a half-cut coconut shell while still hot in its sticky liquid form) prefer to buy this kind of sugar.
This locally-made sugar famous in Southern Leyte whose main juice is from the planted sugar canes in the field were cooked inside a huge vat in the middle of the farm or at the intusan.However, this kind of naturally prepared brown sugar devoid of any man-made chemical are no longer seen in Maasin City for several years now.
Sometime in the 1980s and 90s this kind of sugar was available in some market stores and small stores here. During tabo,held on Saturdays at the old market and now at the new reclamation area, where the bus terminal and the new market were located, hundreds of binagol sugar were wrapped in unas(dry old banana leaves)placed inside several crates and displayed it aligned with other farm products. Most of the consumers and marketgoers would prefer to buy it. Its availability on display during the aforesaid market time (tabo) was on regular basis. At the store one can buy it by retail and its good for café,milk,soman,fruitbread and for other edible food that needs some sweetener as well as for moderate eating. Some cook housewives would use it in making of biko and latik as the right pair for the newly- peeled breadfruit during its season. This kind of dark brown sugar is also good for persons sick with jaundice.
We hope that the sugar planters in St.Bernard and San Juan, the two municipalities where this kind of sugar was made will revive the binagol by planting again the sugar canes in their farms so that we can buy it again at the public markets in different municipalities of Southern Leyte. As another source of income, the revival of planting the sugar canes in some farms in the province is worth the farmers’ efforts. Agriculturists and agriculture technicians in the province must provide technical and material supports to the local farmers and help persuade and encourage them to revive the planting of sugar canes in various farms of the province’s municipalities.
7) For persons with hemorrhoids they should avoid getting constipated. Frequent or occasional constipation both would worsen the persons’ conditions that are affected with such disease. See to it that your rice during meals, if dry, must be softened with fish soup, vegetable soup or any other soup you like. Before eating your meals, always drink 2 glasses of water. This is to avoid, whenever possible, the initial hardening of the stool that would make your pushing efforts laborious when defecating.
If any kind of soup,( avoid fatty/oily soup, except fish oil),is not available, eat a ripe regular size mango or a regular sliced ripe papaya simultaneously with your dry rice to make it wetly together with your viand. Chew thoroughly your food for easy digestion.
Every afternoon at four or five drink 2 or 3 glasses of naturally cool water. This is if you feel that your stomach is okay after eating ripe mango or papaya during lunch. But if your stomach sounded some discomfort, then refrain from drinking water. Instead eat an apple or 2 sans water. At supper time, when you feel that your churning stomach is calming down, drink one and a half or 2 glasses of water before you start eating. Whenever the situation or condition permits, always do this kind of preventive and helpful measure regularly to free you from unwarranted constipation.
However, the best solution for the individuals who are afflicted with hemorrhoids (almoranas in local term), according to a medical practitioner, is surgery. Morover, despite of the removal of the disease, it’s still advisable for all people to avoid constipation by practicing all the things that I have stated here.Constipation,according to a physician surgeon, is responsible in the development of a person’s hemorrhoid. The injurious irritations cause by every movement of hard stool during bowel removal passing the intestinal canal near the anus would gradually, as years pass by, develop into hemorrhoid.
8) Using aluminum bowl or plate to put kinilaw (sliced fresh flesh of raw fish with vinegar and spices)is not recommendable. Try pouring small amount of vinegar in an aluminum bowl or plate and allow it to stay for at least 20 to 25 minutes. Then stir it for several seconds. Taste it and you will notice that it’s now has a bitter taste.Obviuosly, there’s a chemical reaction between the vinegar and the aluminum utensil and it’s bad for your health if you ingest it.
Thus avoid using such kind of ware.Rather, use either ceramic or glass bowl/plate to put and soak your kinilaw with vinegar and spices for at least 40 minutes before eating it with cooked camote (sweet potato) or your bahaw nga kan-on (cooked rice that already lasted from 5 to 6 hours).Also refrain from ingesting vinegar from your kinilaw leftovers. But you can eat the spices if you like. Why? Because it’s likewise bad for your health. Proof? A female friend here in Maasin City who habitually drank vinegar with some salt use as sawsawan (home made sauce) for her half-ripe papaya eventually got sick with leukemia. Medications and blood transfusions had become ineffective to arrest her self-inflicted disease. She departed so prematurely to the other world.
I also know a man who was fond of eating kinilaw and had the habit of drinking vinegar with spices. After a few years of his fetish to drink the acidic substance, he unwittingly wrought damage to his stomach and intestines. When he felt some bad pains on his abdomen and was examined by an internist, it was diagnosed as cancer.
9) If a teenager has noticed that he/she has a good voice, better develop and improve your voice earlier by practicing vocalization exercises regularly. If you have the means, enroll in a voice lesson in your place. Prefer to practice singing meaningful and melodious songs that you like and suits the quality of your voice.
To develop or to improve one’s voice takes years to achieve. Be patient and don’t lost faith. In every undertaking or endeavor we always need patience, hard work and determination. Join and complete in singing contest in your place and in the neighboring towns to expose yourself to the public. Have a goal as an aspiring singer.
In case you become sad or in sorrow select songs to sing that can help relieve and ease your emotional distress. Singing can also help reduce stress. Singing regularly, whether you’re sad or in a happy mood, according to experts, can help slow down the process of aging. This is aside from eating regularly fresh fruits and vegetables that are in seasons.
Personally, I have observed that amateur or professional singers, most particularly those who also compose/write songs have looked younger than their real ages. Being generous, kind and compassionate towards fellowmen and frequently laughing and smiling to people, especially to loved ones, relatives and friends, it was revealed, also contribute to looking younger than ones age.
10) Always shun entering right away inside an air-conditioned room/office if you are exposed to the heat of the sun for even only 30 minutes time and even if you are in a hurry. Always allow yourself to cool down for at least 30 to 60 minutes, depending upon the degree of heat that you are exposed.
Immediate or sudden change of temperature (from heat to cold) has a very bad effect to ones’ body system. It will make you sick first with initial cold and accompanying fever. This condition will commonly graduate later into hard cough that will last for several days or weeks. And that’s another expenses of medicines which you can readily avoid if you have used your prudence and common sense.
If you are a utilityman/messenger in an office/company and has to report immediately to your boss, try testing a co-worker friend and request him to let him bring something on your behalf to your head or somebody higher in rank than yours who instructed you to do an errand.
Convey in polite manner thru your friend some explanation address to yours boss why you’re still outside the office. Better still to call your boss thru your cellphone and convey your explanation of your inhibition why you let a co-worker do what you yourself have to do. Although this is somewhat unethical for a messenger/utilityman to do, but the urgency of the situation and the circumstance is inevitably unavoidable that telling the real reason why you act that way , is the only way that your boss or employer would be able to sympathize with your concern on health. Understanding and thoughtful boss/employer will likewise understand your special concern, particularly if he/she has experienced it himself/herself the adverse effect of entering right away inside an air-con office after long exposure from sunlight and got sick.(Quirico M.Gorpido,Jr.)
Friday, July 16, 2010
Lightning Hits Viper FM's Transmitter?
July 16,2010
Lightning Hits Viper FM’s Transmitter?
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-A lightning bolt allegedly hit Viper FM’s transmitter at a time when one early morning thunderstorms and lightnings roared and jolted sleeping people in Maasin and Macrohon areas.
This was disclosed by one of the workers at the Saludo Ice Plant in brgy. Ichon, Macrohon according to a salesboy friend at one of the beach resorts here when I went there one Sunday morning.
The lightning strike happened on the same morning a cogon-roofed resthouse in brgy. Maria Clara here was burned by a passing fireball before hitting a coconut tree nearby that cracked into halves.
Three or four days after I have posted a news story about the newly-launched Viper FM in brgy. Ichon,Macrohon which is 6 kilometers away from Maasin where series of thunderstorms and lightnings roaringly shaken and jolted the surroundings one early morning like big rolling balls creating a sense-surround effects that jolted sleeping people in the vicinities of the city and the nearby places.
The following day Viper FM radio listeners could no longer hear its variety of songs being played on the airwaves. Speculations started cropping up particularly from the listeners that it was probably hit by a lightning like what happened to a resthouse in brgy.Maria Clara.
Other listeners who knew that former Congressman Anecito Saludo,Sr. has lost in his bid for the congressional seat during the first automation polls on May 10,2010,alleged that the disappearance of Viper FM songs/music on the air has something to do with his defeat.
However, many music lovers did not believe in the allegation because the Congressman and his son who managed the music station have another purpose why the family has decided to open a radio station where songs and music programs have a huge part of its existence.
That is to provide variety of songs and instrumental pieces to radio listeners in Southern Leyte and to its neighboring places of Surigao, Bohol, Misamis Oriental, Camiguin Island, part of Northern Leyte and probably part of Cebu province for musical entertainment of music lovers.
On the other hand, this is the first time that I heard a radio transmitter hit by a lightning strike. In Alaska, Mambaling, CebuCity where I have resided for about two years in the past, there were 5 or 6 AM radio transmitters erected on the shallow part of the seabed. These transmitters were protected by elevated concrete foundations that would be soaked during high tide, almost reaching the transmitters’ bases. This condition was also similar to DXDD’s transmitter in Ozamis City, Misamis Occidental (my second home-hello! To my cousins, kith and kins there)) that was also erected on a shallow seabed in brgy.Malaubang which is less than two kilometers away from the city proper.
The main reason why most radio transmitters are placed or constructed on shallow seabeds,is because, according to the information/explanation that I’ve gathered, it will increase the transmitters’ powerful signals and can reached farther places. In contrast, a radio transmitter or transmitters that were erected on low dry grounds have lesser distance of coverage. That’s why the more technical men who managed radio stations have preferred to construct their towers (transmitters) on wet and higher grounds.
There were also some occasions when thunderstorms and lightnings have manifested in Cebu’ s vicinities that similarly roared and jolted some folks creating fear of the nature’s wrath, that might strike anytime.
But I have not seen or witnessed a radio transmitter in Alaska, Mambaling that was hit by a lightning during bad and gloomy weather.Yes; it’s always possible that a tree, a house or a lone man in the open field was hit by its powerful electrical discharge.
One stormy gloomy afternoon with the sky covered with thick black clouds hovering on the horizon of brgy.Molicay,Ozamis City ,4 field workers riding on carabaos in the open ricefield suddenly dropped on the ground when a lightning strike passed by them.
Folks nearby who saw them like dead rushed the victims to the hospital for an emergency treatment. NO-one h as died. They all survived.
The attending physician who received and treated them explained to the victims’ close kins that the lightning’s electrical discharge had just passed near them.”Hitting them directly with a lightning will make them all dead”, the doctor declared.”They are still fortunate that it’s not a direct hit”.
Which regards to a radio transmitter, it is true that there is such an invention as an anti-lightning rod? If this gadget really exists, did not Congressman Saludo and his son Chito consider installing it on their FM’s transmitter? Did the management of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) forget to advise Viper FM’s owner to install an anti-lightning rod on their radio transmitter?
How about an existing AM radio station here in Maasin, the DYDM, which is owned by the Catholic’s Diocese of Maasin (covering under its jurisdiction from up in Baybay, Leyte and down to Southern Leyte’s last town of Silago) has existed for almost 20 years now, but I did not hear any news report that its transmitter erected on the low dry ground near the radio station has been hit by a lightning strike.
This despite of the fact that there were already more occasions during bad weather when thunderstorms and lightnings have manifested their powerful roars and jolts with accompanying heavy rains.
Because of this occurrence that wrought havoc to a music station in brgy. Ichon, Macrohon including allegedly its modern equipments installed inside the radio booth, I was urged to ask a licensed radio operator who was working at DYDM during the previous years, but is now working at the Saint Joseph College.
According to Jun Saratan, a copper with connection on the ground, when attached at the highest point of a radio transmitter would become an anti-lightning rod, which would protect it from lightning strike. However, installing the anti-lightning rod is not enough. Another invention that needs to be installed in wire connections (isingsing ra na ,a Cebuano sentence from the licensed radio operator on how a “pyrite soap” should be placed along the wire connection), from near the power source towards the transmitter, and from near the power source towards the direction to the radio station, are the so-called “pyrite soap”.
He explained that the “pyrite soap” installation in two or three wire connections is very essential, as this invention will block the flow of electrical discharge from a lightning strike in either ways-if the power source was hit by lightning bolt during inclement weather, thus minimizing the damage brought about by the lightning strike.
When asked if “pyrite soaps” are available in the Philippines, he said that this invention is only available in Germany and in the USA. He said he knew the primary importance of including this blocking gadget in all AM and FM stations from a German expert who conducted a seminar about “pyrite soap” at radio station DZRH in Manila several years ago on the importance of installing “pyrite soap” in wire connections in all existing radio stations in the country.
Saratan further implied his new knowledge has helped him in protecting DYDM where he was previously employed as a licensed radio operator for several years before transferring to SJC, from any lightning strike that might hit DYDM’s source of power.
Luckily, when I went to the provincial hospital lately, I saw him (Chito Saludo) hurriedly opening the door of the hospital’s private room with two heavy bags full of personal belongings slung on both of his shoulders. He was there, he told me, because his pregnant wife was under labor and has just given birth to their baby. They were leaving the hospital at the time we’ve met.
I asked him how true that Viper FM’s transmitter was hit by a lightning. He informed that the music station’s transmitter was safe and that what was hit by the lightning strike was the power source (transformer) installed by SOLECO’s linemen.
He clarified that the electrical discharge ran through the connecting wires and towards the transmitter erected atop a hill, not far from the station, and damaged some of its parts. The equipments inside the radio station itself, he said, were not affected by the lightning strike. He said that they have planned to repair the damaged transmitter next month, that is sometime in August. How many weeks will it takes to repair the damaged transmitter? Chito did not give me the approximation. But before he would decide to repair the damaged transmitter, it would be prudent for Chito Saludo to talk to Jun Saratan at the Saint Joseph College in Maasin for more details on the importance of installing also “pyrite soaps” on FM’s wire connections to prevent a repeat of the sad incident.Jun Saratan further said that the damaged transformer can still be repaired thru rewinding procedure to economize buying a new replacement. Music lovers shall have just to try to tune in their radios sometime in September or October to see if Viper FM on 106.1 MHz is already back on air. If not yet, maybe the ordering of the “pyrite soaps” in either the USA or Germany will take a long time to accomplish (Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Lightning Hits Viper FM’s Transmitter?
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-A lightning bolt allegedly hit Viper FM’s transmitter at a time when one early morning thunderstorms and lightnings roared and jolted sleeping people in Maasin and Macrohon areas.
This was disclosed by one of the workers at the Saludo Ice Plant in brgy. Ichon, Macrohon according to a salesboy friend at one of the beach resorts here when I went there one Sunday morning.
The lightning strike happened on the same morning a cogon-roofed resthouse in brgy. Maria Clara here was burned by a passing fireball before hitting a coconut tree nearby that cracked into halves.
Three or four days after I have posted a news story about the newly-launched Viper FM in brgy. Ichon,Macrohon which is 6 kilometers away from Maasin where series of thunderstorms and lightnings roaringly shaken and jolted the surroundings one early morning like big rolling balls creating a sense-surround effects that jolted sleeping people in the vicinities of the city and the nearby places.
The following day Viper FM radio listeners could no longer hear its variety of songs being played on the airwaves. Speculations started cropping up particularly from the listeners that it was probably hit by a lightning like what happened to a resthouse in brgy.Maria Clara.
Other listeners who knew that former Congressman Anecito Saludo,Sr. has lost in his bid for the congressional seat during the first automation polls on May 10,2010,alleged that the disappearance of Viper FM songs/music on the air has something to do with his defeat.
However, many music lovers did not believe in the allegation because the Congressman and his son who managed the music station have another purpose why the family has decided to open a radio station where songs and music programs have a huge part of its existence.
That is to provide variety of songs and instrumental pieces to radio listeners in Southern Leyte and to its neighboring places of Surigao, Bohol, Misamis Oriental, Camiguin Island, part of Northern Leyte and probably part of Cebu province for musical entertainment of music lovers.
On the other hand, this is the first time that I heard a radio transmitter hit by a lightning strike. In Alaska, Mambaling, CebuCity where I have resided for about two years in the past, there were 5 or 6 AM radio transmitters erected on the shallow part of the seabed. These transmitters were protected by elevated concrete foundations that would be soaked during high tide, almost reaching the transmitters’ bases. This condition was also similar to DXDD’s transmitter in Ozamis City, Misamis Occidental (my second home-hello! To my cousins, kith and kins there)) that was also erected on a shallow seabed in brgy.Malaubang which is less than two kilometers away from the city proper.
The main reason why most radio transmitters are placed or constructed on shallow seabeds,is because, according to the information/explanation that I’ve gathered, it will increase the transmitters’ powerful signals and can reached farther places. In contrast, a radio transmitter or transmitters that were erected on low dry grounds have lesser distance of coverage. That’s why the more technical men who managed radio stations have preferred to construct their towers (transmitters) on wet and higher grounds.
There were also some occasions when thunderstorms and lightnings have manifested in Cebu’ s vicinities that similarly roared and jolted some folks creating fear of the nature’s wrath, that might strike anytime.
But I have not seen or witnessed a radio transmitter in Alaska, Mambaling that was hit by a lightning during bad and gloomy weather.Yes; it’s always possible that a tree, a house or a lone man in the open field was hit by its powerful electrical discharge.
One stormy gloomy afternoon with the sky covered with thick black clouds hovering on the horizon of brgy.Molicay,Ozamis City ,4 field workers riding on carabaos in the open ricefield suddenly dropped on the ground when a lightning strike passed by them.
Folks nearby who saw them like dead rushed the victims to the hospital for an emergency treatment. NO-one h as died. They all survived.
The attending physician who received and treated them explained to the victims’ close kins that the lightning’s electrical discharge had just passed near them.”Hitting them directly with a lightning will make them all dead”, the doctor declared.”They are still fortunate that it’s not a direct hit”.
Which regards to a radio transmitter, it is true that there is such an invention as an anti-lightning rod? If this gadget really exists, did not Congressman Saludo and his son Chito consider installing it on their FM’s transmitter? Did the management of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) forget to advise Viper FM’s owner to install an anti-lightning rod on their radio transmitter?
How about an existing AM radio station here in Maasin, the DYDM, which is owned by the Catholic’s Diocese of Maasin (covering under its jurisdiction from up in Baybay, Leyte and down to Southern Leyte’s last town of Silago) has existed for almost 20 years now, but I did not hear any news report that its transmitter erected on the low dry ground near the radio station has been hit by a lightning strike.
This despite of the fact that there were already more occasions during bad weather when thunderstorms and lightnings have manifested their powerful roars and jolts with accompanying heavy rains.
Because of this occurrence that wrought havoc to a music station in brgy. Ichon, Macrohon including allegedly its modern equipments installed inside the radio booth, I was urged to ask a licensed radio operator who was working at DYDM during the previous years, but is now working at the Saint Joseph College.
According to Jun Saratan, a copper with connection on the ground, when attached at the highest point of a radio transmitter would become an anti-lightning rod, which would protect it from lightning strike. However, installing the anti-lightning rod is not enough. Another invention that needs to be installed in wire connections (isingsing ra na ,a Cebuano sentence from the licensed radio operator on how a “pyrite soap” should be placed along the wire connection), from near the power source towards the transmitter, and from near the power source towards the direction to the radio station, are the so-called “pyrite soap”.
He explained that the “pyrite soap” installation in two or three wire connections is very essential, as this invention will block the flow of electrical discharge from a lightning strike in either ways-if the power source was hit by lightning bolt during inclement weather, thus minimizing the damage brought about by the lightning strike.
When asked if “pyrite soaps” are available in the Philippines, he said that this invention is only available in Germany and in the USA. He said he knew the primary importance of including this blocking gadget in all AM and FM stations from a German expert who conducted a seminar about “pyrite soap” at radio station DZRH in Manila several years ago on the importance of installing “pyrite soap” in wire connections in all existing radio stations in the country.
Saratan further implied his new knowledge has helped him in protecting DYDM where he was previously employed as a licensed radio operator for several years before transferring to SJC, from any lightning strike that might hit DYDM’s source of power.
Luckily, when I went to the provincial hospital lately, I saw him (Chito Saludo) hurriedly opening the door of the hospital’s private room with two heavy bags full of personal belongings slung on both of his shoulders. He was there, he told me, because his pregnant wife was under labor and has just given birth to their baby. They were leaving the hospital at the time we’ve met.
I asked him how true that Viper FM’s transmitter was hit by a lightning. He informed that the music station’s transmitter was safe and that what was hit by the lightning strike was the power source (transformer) installed by SOLECO’s linemen.
He clarified that the electrical discharge ran through the connecting wires and towards the transmitter erected atop a hill, not far from the station, and damaged some of its parts. The equipments inside the radio station itself, he said, were not affected by the lightning strike. He said that they have planned to repair the damaged transmitter next month, that is sometime in August. How many weeks will it takes to repair the damaged transmitter? Chito did not give me the approximation. But before he would decide to repair the damaged transmitter, it would be prudent for Chito Saludo to talk to Jun Saratan at the Saint Joseph College in Maasin for more details on the importance of installing also “pyrite soaps” on FM’s wire connections to prevent a repeat of the sad incident.Jun Saratan further said that the damaged transformer can still be repaired thru rewinding procedure to economize buying a new replacement. Music lovers shall have just to try to tune in their radios sometime in September or October to see if Viper FM on 106.1 MHz is already back on air. If not yet, maybe the ordering of the “pyrite soaps” in either the USA or Germany will take a long time to accomplish (Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Monday, July 12, 2010
Binay Should Duplicate His Good Deeds In Makati
July 12,2010
Binay Should Duplicate His Good Deeds In Makati
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Binay has done great deeds for the general welfare of the people of Makati particularly to its poor residents and its senior citizens. Now that he is fortunate to have been elected as Vice-President during the recent first automation polls on May 10,2010 national and local elections as “a gift and as surprise” from the entire electorate, it’s high time that he will consider as well the great deeds that he has done as a former third-termer Mayor of Makati City. Makati City is the country’s premier business center, where big local and foreign investors have chosen to establish their respective businesses.
His political ads that appeared in a popular Manila-based tabloid prior to the recent May 2010 first automation polls, regarding his various programs for the benefit of the poor and senior citizens, are worthy of duplication and emulation.
What Binay did was to provide free schooling and free school supplies for the children of poor families, free hospitalizations and medicines for its indigents, providing some social benefits and financial assistance for the senior citizens, among others.
His political slogan “sanay ganito rin sa buong bansa” is a great slogan that can possibly be applied and practiced to all Local Government Units in the entire archipelago. In fact, his kind of programs as Makati Chief Executive was the driving force that drove majority of the millions of poor Filipino Voters to vote in his favour for the Vice-Presidential seat. We hope that Binay has perceived these things.
Now that he has realized his dream of becoming the second highest official of the Republic, it’s now his great opportunity to materialize his other dream of implementing similar programs that he’s espoused while he was still the Makati Mayor. That is for the upliftment of the well-being and the general welfare of the millions of poor and the rest of the people in the Philippines.
And now that the post-election ranting of alleged fraud and the “dagdag-bawas” syndrome from among the losers that subjected some COMELEC and Smartmatic officials from the grinds of the Senate inquiries are over, let us give our full support to the new Vice-President-elect Jejomar Binay,regardless of whether you voted for him or not.
If his dream for the people of Makati has become a concrete reality during his incumbency, why not in the entire country as well? Binay really needs a strong political will to achieve his goals. We hope that he can achieve this kind of big beneficial dream for the entire Filipinos. And that his colleagues in the Upper and Lower house in Congress will also give their full support in realizing his objectives for the benefit and the upliftment of all Filipinos. More power to you, Vice-President-elect Jejomar Binay.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
P.S. The name Maro Blauta, who supposedly made an acceptance response in behalf of all the awardees in my news story entitled “Provl Govt. Hands Over Plaques Of Recognitions To Former Provincial Officials/Awards MOSL” is a “mistaken identity”. Mistaken identity here simply means that it was Educator Juanito Acero Lao, who made an acceptance response and spoke in behalf of all the awardees. My apologize to the readers-QMG,Jr.
Binay Should Duplicate His Good Deeds In Makati
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Binay has done great deeds for the general welfare of the people of Makati particularly to its poor residents and its senior citizens. Now that he is fortunate to have been elected as Vice-President during the recent first automation polls on May 10,2010 national and local elections as “a gift and as surprise” from the entire electorate, it’s high time that he will consider as well the great deeds that he has done as a former third-termer Mayor of Makati City. Makati City is the country’s premier business center, where big local and foreign investors have chosen to establish their respective businesses.
His political ads that appeared in a popular Manila-based tabloid prior to the recent May 2010 first automation polls, regarding his various programs for the benefit of the poor and senior citizens, are worthy of duplication and emulation.
What Binay did was to provide free schooling and free school supplies for the children of poor families, free hospitalizations and medicines for its indigents, providing some social benefits and financial assistance for the senior citizens, among others.
His political slogan “sanay ganito rin sa buong bansa” is a great slogan that can possibly be applied and practiced to all Local Government Units in the entire archipelago. In fact, his kind of programs as Makati Chief Executive was the driving force that drove majority of the millions of poor Filipino Voters to vote in his favour for the Vice-Presidential seat. We hope that Binay has perceived these things.
Now that he has realized his dream of becoming the second highest official of the Republic, it’s now his great opportunity to materialize his other dream of implementing similar programs that he’s espoused while he was still the Makati Mayor. That is for the upliftment of the well-being and the general welfare of the millions of poor and the rest of the people in the Philippines.
And now that the post-election ranting of alleged fraud and the “dagdag-bawas” syndrome from among the losers that subjected some COMELEC and Smartmatic officials from the grinds of the Senate inquiries are over, let us give our full support to the new Vice-President-elect Jejomar Binay,regardless of whether you voted for him or not.
If his dream for the people of Makati has become a concrete reality during his incumbency, why not in the entire country as well? Binay really needs a strong political will to achieve his goals. We hope that he can achieve this kind of big beneficial dream for the entire Filipinos. And that his colleagues in the Upper and Lower house in Congress will also give their full support in realizing his objectives for the benefit and the upliftment of all Filipinos. More power to you, Vice-President-elect Jejomar Binay.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
P.S. The name Maro Blauta, who supposedly made an acceptance response in behalf of all the awardees in my news story entitled “Provl Govt. Hands Over Plaques Of Recognitions To Former Provincial Officials/Awards MOSL” is a “mistaken identity”. Mistaken identity here simply means that it was Educator Juanito Acero Lao, who made an acceptance response and spoke in behalf of all the awardees. My apologize to the readers-QMG,Jr.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Provl Govt.Hands Over Plaques Of Recognition To Former Provincial Officials/MOSL
July 9,2010
Provl Govt. Hands Over Plaques Of Recognition To Former Provincial Officials/Awards MOSL
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The provincial government with the assistance of the private sector has handed over recently 16 plaques of recognition to former Provincial Governors and Vice-Governors and 17(plaques) Rajah Kolambu Awards to most outstanding Southern Leyteños in 5 different fields of endeavors and a posthumous award during the 50th golden year anniversary of the province of Southern Leyte.
The eligibility requirements for the nominees of the most outstanding Southern Leyteños are that he/she must be a bona fide Southern Leyteño whether residing in the province or outside the province. This means that he or she was a natural born Southern Leyteño, said Provincial Planning Development Office head Virginia Lim-Cruz whose office is in-charged of the project. And that one or both parents were born in Southern Leyte.
The PPDO head informed that the nomination plan was first announced during the April 2010 Provincial Development Council meeting held at the Ruperto Kangleon Function House. In that said meeting, nomination forms were distributed to all municipal Mayors who were part of the attendees, she said, and it was also announced in the local radio station DYDM for additional information to the listeners.
She said that Lilies Mercado Kapili, a US citizen, also informed UCCP members to recommend well-known Southern Leyteños whom they know in various field of specialization. Kapili also contacted all Southern Leyteños she know who were residing in different states of the USA to send their entries of Southern Leyteños they have come to know who are well-known in their field of specializations.
There were 5 categories of specializations among the Rajah Kolambu awardees and one posthumous award to the most outstanding Southern Leyteños. 1) Agriculture (Research and Development):Dr. Julieta Rodas-Roa-Director,Philippines Rootcrops Research & Training Center,Visayas State University,Baybay,Leyte.
2)Culture and Arts: A)Salvador Compendio Abiera-present-Artist and Architect,Curator,Abiera Museum of Arts,Maasin City;B)Nemesio Vasquez Betanio-present-Curator Anthropological Museum Center, Mindanao University,Bukidnon; C)Wilfredo Olayvar Justimbaste-present-Dramatist,Scripwriter,writer,Public Relation Officer 4,City Hall,Maasin City; D)Sal’my Neo Dadap Malaki-represented by his College of Maasin teacher Beverly Espina Navarette-member,Los Angles Opera Company,USA,Concert artist,flutist,world-class tenor, educator; E)Sherwin Mole Casepe-present-(young achiever category)dance choreographer,G4-Force dance company, ABS-CBN’s ASAP.
3)Education: A)Maro Blauta-present-retired School Division Superintendent,Lucena City; B)Margarita Germo Gabriel-present-Teacher 3,DepEd,Sindangan Elementary School,Macrohon,leading her co-teachers in coaching schoolchildren to be the number one in National Achievement Test nationwide in 2009; C)Dr. Juanito Acero Lao-present-President,Fr. Saturnino Urius University,Butuan City.
4)Government Service: A)Commissioner Violeta Ortiz-Bantug-present-Presiding Commissioner 4th Division of the National Labor Relation Commission, Cebu City(highest Career executive position currently occupied by a Southern Leyteño); B)Wilfredo LIgtas Madrona-present-Doctor of Medicine, municipal councilor, environmentalist; C)Engr.Rito Lopez Monte de Ramos-present-Assistant Regional Director,DPWH,Region 7,Cebu Province; D)Engr.Daisy B. Toledo-present-DPWH-Cebu District Engineer, Second District Engineering Office.
5)Science and Technology: A)Dr. Rico Obligado Cruz-present-President and Consultant, co-Energy international-Idaho,USA-a leading international expert in biofuels research,development,production,evaluation and characterization; Terrestrial Ecologist Manager,Oregon,USA.Office-Dept of Science and Engineering,Pendleton,Oregon,USA; B)Dr. Roberto Cariño Guarte-present-Professor 3,Visayas State University,Baybay,Leyte,Inventor.His inventions: biodiesel processor, portable solar dyer for Abaca, biomass furnace, automated laboratory dryer, greenhouse-type solar dryer. His food products: virgin oil, maccapuno strips, maccapuno macaroons,macapuno sweet potato jam. He has 29 publications and 26 technical papers prepared and presented during conventions, lectures and seminars; C)Dr. Prisco Duarte Nilo-represented by a cousin-Professorial Lecturer,Dept. of Meteorology and Oceanography,UP,Quezon City(1997-2003)Deputy Administrator for Operation and Services,PAG-ASA(2004-07); Technical Advisor for EWS,Maldives Tsunami Recovery Program,UNDP-funded project; D)Dr. Lyndon Duarte Segales-represented by his mother-Naval Officer, US Navy Submarines(1990-95)Teaching Assistant, University of Hawaii,Dept. of Physics and Astronomy(January 1997-98);Research Assistant, University of Hawaii(Jan. 1998-Dec. 2000);Lead author of the publication “Stressed Induced Electrical Noise in Stainless Steel” Applied physics, October 2000;Lab Instructor for modern physics,E&M and Mechanics Lab.
6) Posthumous Award-Leon K.Markines-represented by his daughter Gloria Markines Reyes, Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) President.
Former Provincial Governors: 1)Alfredo K. Bantug(July 1,1960-Dec. 31,1967); 2)Salvacion Oppus Yñiguez(Jan. 1,1968-Aprsil 20,1986); 3)Gaspar V. Tagalo-(April 21,1986-Nov. 25,1986,Jan. 1,1987-Feb. 19.1987); 4)Ernesto D. Labastida,Sr.-(Nov.26,1986-Dec. 3,1986); 5)Agustin L.Climaco-(Dec. 1,1987-Jan.31,1988); 6)Oscar K. Tan,M.D.-(Feb. 20,1987-Nov. 30,1987,Feb. 1,1988-June 30,1998); 7)Rosette Yñiguez-Lerias-July 1,1998-June 30,2007).
Former Vice-Governors: 1)Graciano H. Capili-(1960-1963); 2)Alberto Napuli-(1964-1967); 3)Isabelo D. Kaindoy-(1968-1971); 4)Valeriano P. Tomol,Jr.-(1972-1975); 5)Oscar K.Tan,M.D.-Mar. 1,1980-Feb. 15,1987); 6)Ernesto D. Labastida,Sr.-(Feb. 20,1987-Nov.30,1987); 7)Cesar Piedad,Sr.-Dec. 1,1987-Jan. 31,1988); 8)Asisclo G. Munda,Sr.-(Feb.1, 1988-June 30,1995); 9)Eva L.Tomol-(July 1,1995-June 30,2004).
During the anniversary program, Governor Damian Mercado assisted by his older brother Congressman Roger Mercado handed over the plaques to the awardees .It was received either by the recipients themselves or their representatives. Each awardees individually posed for a souvenir photo flanked by the Mercado brothers and Vice-Governor Miguel Maamo,11 before exiting the stage.
Educator Maro Blauta in behalf of the awardees delivered his acceptance response. Thankful of the recognition and the Rajah Kolambu awards by the provincial government, he stressed the importance of every individual to get a good quality education. That every family head should send their children to school up to college until they can finish a course or courses. He also confirmed with the statement of former Education Secretary Jesli Lapuz that education is the only solution to poverty.Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Provl Govt. Hands Over Plaques Of Recognition To Former Provincial Officials/Awards MOSL
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The provincial government with the assistance of the private sector has handed over recently 16 plaques of recognition to former Provincial Governors and Vice-Governors and 17(plaques) Rajah Kolambu Awards to most outstanding Southern Leyteños in 5 different fields of endeavors and a posthumous award during the 50th golden year anniversary of the province of Southern Leyte.
The eligibility requirements for the nominees of the most outstanding Southern Leyteños are that he/she must be a bona fide Southern Leyteño whether residing in the province or outside the province. This means that he or she was a natural born Southern Leyteño, said Provincial Planning Development Office head Virginia Lim-Cruz whose office is in-charged of the project. And that one or both parents were born in Southern Leyte.
The PPDO head informed that the nomination plan was first announced during the April 2010 Provincial Development Council meeting held at the Ruperto Kangleon Function House. In that said meeting, nomination forms were distributed to all municipal Mayors who were part of the attendees, she said, and it was also announced in the local radio station DYDM for additional information to the listeners.
She said that Lilies Mercado Kapili, a US citizen, also informed UCCP members to recommend well-known Southern Leyteños whom they know in various field of specialization. Kapili also contacted all Southern Leyteños she know who were residing in different states of the USA to send their entries of Southern Leyteños they have come to know who are well-known in their field of specializations.
There were 5 categories of specializations among the Rajah Kolambu awardees and one posthumous award to the most outstanding Southern Leyteños. 1) Agriculture (Research and Development):Dr. Julieta Rodas-Roa-Director,Philippines Rootcrops Research & Training Center,Visayas State University,Baybay,Leyte.
2)Culture and Arts: A)Salvador Compendio Abiera-present-Artist and Architect,Curator,Abiera Museum of Arts,Maasin City;B)Nemesio Vasquez Betanio-present-Curator Anthropological Museum Center, Mindanao University,Bukidnon; C)Wilfredo Olayvar Justimbaste-present-Dramatist,Scripwriter,writer,Public Relation Officer 4,City Hall,Maasin City; D)Sal’my Neo Dadap Malaki-represented by his College of Maasin teacher Beverly Espina Navarette-member,Los Angles Opera Company,USA,Concert artist,flutist,world-class tenor, educator; E)Sherwin Mole Casepe-present-(young achiever category)dance choreographer,G4-Force dance company, ABS-CBN’s ASAP.
3)Education: A)Maro Blauta-present-retired School Division Superintendent,Lucena City; B)Margarita Germo Gabriel-present-Teacher 3,DepEd,Sindangan Elementary School,Macrohon,leading her co-teachers in coaching schoolchildren to be the number one in National Achievement Test nationwide in 2009; C)Dr. Juanito Acero Lao-present-President,Fr. Saturnino Urius University,Butuan City.
4)Government Service: A)Commissioner Violeta Ortiz-Bantug-present-Presiding Commissioner 4th Division of the National Labor Relation Commission, Cebu City(highest Career executive position currently occupied by a Southern Leyteño); B)Wilfredo LIgtas Madrona-present-Doctor of Medicine, municipal councilor, environmentalist; C)Engr.Rito Lopez Monte de Ramos-present-Assistant Regional Director,DPWH,Region 7,Cebu Province; D)Engr.Daisy B. Toledo-present-DPWH-Cebu District Engineer, Second District Engineering Office.
5)Science and Technology: A)Dr. Rico Obligado Cruz-present-President and Consultant, co-Energy international-Idaho,USA-a leading international expert in biofuels research,development,production,evaluation and characterization; Terrestrial Ecologist Manager,Oregon,USA.Office-Dept of Science and Engineering,Pendleton,Oregon,USA; B)Dr. Roberto Cariño Guarte-present-Professor 3,Visayas State University,Baybay,Leyte,Inventor.His inventions: biodiesel processor, portable solar dyer for Abaca, biomass furnace, automated laboratory dryer, greenhouse-type solar dryer. His food products: virgin oil, maccapuno strips, maccapuno macaroons,macapuno sweet potato jam. He has 29 publications and 26 technical papers prepared and presented during conventions, lectures and seminars; C)Dr. Prisco Duarte Nilo-represented by a cousin-Professorial Lecturer,Dept. of Meteorology and Oceanography,UP,Quezon City(1997-2003)Deputy Administrator for Operation and Services,PAG-ASA(2004-07); Technical Advisor for EWS,Maldives Tsunami Recovery Program,UNDP-funded project; D)Dr. Lyndon Duarte Segales-represented by his mother-Naval Officer, US Navy Submarines(1990-95)Teaching Assistant, University of Hawaii,Dept. of Physics and Astronomy(January 1997-98);Research Assistant, University of Hawaii(Jan. 1998-Dec. 2000);Lead author of the publication “Stressed Induced Electrical Noise in Stainless Steel” Applied physics, October 2000;Lab Instructor for modern physics,E&M and Mechanics Lab.
6) Posthumous Award-Leon K.Markines-represented by his daughter Gloria Markines Reyes, Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) President.
Former Provincial Governors: 1)Alfredo K. Bantug(July 1,1960-Dec. 31,1967); 2)Salvacion Oppus Yñiguez(Jan. 1,1968-Aprsil 20,1986); 3)Gaspar V. Tagalo-(April 21,1986-Nov. 25,1986,Jan. 1,1987-Feb. 19.1987); 4)Ernesto D. Labastida,Sr.-(Nov.26,1986-Dec. 3,1986); 5)Agustin L.Climaco-(Dec. 1,1987-Jan.31,1988); 6)Oscar K. Tan,M.D.-(Feb. 20,1987-Nov. 30,1987,Feb. 1,1988-June 30,1998); 7)Rosette Yñiguez-Lerias-July 1,1998-June 30,2007).
Former Vice-Governors: 1)Graciano H. Capili-(1960-1963); 2)Alberto Napuli-(1964-1967); 3)Isabelo D. Kaindoy-(1968-1971); 4)Valeriano P. Tomol,Jr.-(1972-1975); 5)Oscar K.Tan,M.D.-Mar. 1,1980-Feb. 15,1987); 6)Ernesto D. Labastida,Sr.-(Feb. 20,1987-Nov.30,1987); 7)Cesar Piedad,Sr.-Dec. 1,1987-Jan. 31,1988); 8)Asisclo G. Munda,Sr.-(Feb.1, 1988-June 30,1995); 9)Eva L.Tomol-(July 1,1995-June 30,2004).
During the anniversary program, Governor Damian Mercado assisted by his older brother Congressman Roger Mercado handed over the plaques to the awardees .It was received either by the recipients themselves or their representatives. Each awardees individually posed for a souvenir photo flanked by the Mercado brothers and Vice-Governor Miguel Maamo,11 before exiting the stage.
Educator Maro Blauta in behalf of the awardees delivered his acceptance response. Thankful of the recognition and the Rajah Kolambu awards by the provincial government, he stressed the importance of every individual to get a good quality education. That every family head should send their children to school up to college until they can finish a course or courses. He also confirmed with the statement of former Education Secretary Jesli Lapuz that education is the only solution to poverty.Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Provl Govt.Hands Over Plaques Of Recognition To Former Provincial Officials/MOSL
July 9,2010
Surveys On Candidates During Elections Should Be Banned
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
When was this so-called survey on candidates started in the Philippines? Who initiated it? As long as I can remember since I became a voter, it was only during the recent years that survey on the popularity of a candidate or candidates have began. However, this kind of survey that survey agencies have utilized is not satisfying if any person would look at its procedure in collecting “specimen” for interviews. With respondents of less than three thousands gathered from various places to gauge a presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates’ popularity rate could not really represent the bulk of majority of the 50M plus Filipino voters. Yet this was the way we were led to believe by the survey agencies that conducted the surveys of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates during the recent and the first automated polls on May 10,2010 national and local elections.
How can such popularity rate results of percentages taken from the selected respondents for the two highest positions of the Republic of the Philippines represents the voices, the minds and the sentiments of the rest of the 50M plus Filipino voters in the country? There are still many municipalities and cities in the entire archipelago that were not covered by the survey agencies. The surveys cannot make me believe on the explanations, equations and ratios in survey results. I have the belief and the conviction that logical and analytical thinkers could not also believe nor accept their kind of report or explanations regarding their system.
However, this scheme has pre-conditioned some voters’ mind with a “lean on decision” out of convenience and have stopped using their brains to really analyze and evaluate the given survey results which were based only on a very small fraction of the entire population. This is the reason that survey results could not be relied upon. It has only provided a mindset that has no firm grasp on the real condition of those candidates running for either the presidential or Vice-presidential seat.
The better ways to anchor on our personal choices of candidates running for the highest down to the lowest positions in the government service is to dig deep on their family background, characteristic traits, academic side, track records and the agenda or programs of government if they will be elected in the positions they are aspiring for. These are the most effective ways that every wise voter must take into consideration during elections. Let us not allow ourselves to be influenced by survey results even if such kind of measure on the candidates popularity is branded as “survey science” or science survey” whatever that means.
Is the conduct of surveys on candidates’ popularity in selected areas a voluntary job? Or is a presidential or Vice-presidential candidate/s pay for it? If a candidate or candidates seeking for the highest position of the Land have paid for the conduct of surveys, how are they paying it? Conducting of political surveys with payments is disadvantageous to candidates who have limited funds to spend. But more serious is that only a few places were subjected to surveys while huge chunks of the country’s population remain untouched by the survey agencies. Hence, this system is considered as unfair and unjust to other candidates and also to the voters themselves who need to be properly informed. Because of this, I would like to suggest to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) that surveys on candidates running for president and Vice-president and other government positions should be banned or abolished.
On the other hand, we can have nationwide surveys (in every cities and municipalities in the whole archipelago)on the health conditions of our people, population rate, nutrition, employment, migration, diseases, and breastfeeding of babies and non-breastfeeding of babies, agriculture, educational system, poverty level, among other things.
If a law is necessary to effect the banning or the abolition of political surveys, our legislators in Congress should consider enacting such kind of law. In other words, let us go back to the most basic measures in choosing and electing competent candidates who run for public offices. Let us also stop selling our votes for a thousand or several hundred of pesos come election time. Our politicians in turn should also stop buying votes. Who were those politicians in the past who initiated the buying of votes from the electorate during elections? They should realize that what they have done is a great disservice to the country. It was also reportedly revealed on TV that two of the provinces that were allegedly higher spenders during the first automation polls on May 10, 2010 elections were Sarangani and Southern Leyte. The buying and selling of votes has become a bad habit. Some voters who used to receive money during elections from some politicians would not go anymore to the precinct to cast their ballots, if not a single politician or candidate has given them money, three, two or one day before voting time. I have stated this because some voters by their own volition have revealed this to me.
Nevertheless, if each and every one of us, voters, would resolve to really stop selling our votes by refusing to accept money from the politicians during elections, we can do it.Yes, we can do it. If we give more importance to our right of suffrage and keep our dignities intact, considering that our right is sacred and priceless, then we can stop now selling our votes. Accepting money from any politician or candidate during elections-that is three, two or one day before voting time, means that you are selling your vote and you lose half of your dignity as a voter.
Do you not know that politicians who have spend millions and millions of money during elections to buy votes are not happy after all? Let us pity and be kind to the politicians.Yes, let us pity and be kind to them, also. Much more let us pity and be kind to ourselves, too. They are only force to do it because they want to win in the elections. They want to serve the Filipino people for some purpose that they themselves know, coupled with personal interest of course, which is but natural for every person in any kind of endeavour.They want to build names for themselves to be remember well after their passing by the following generations. We only hope that they choose to build good names rather than bad names that can reap for themselves blessings instead of curses. We also hope that trustworthy service to the nation is the topmost part of their intentions and priorities in seeking for elective positions in the Government.
But this kind of business activity (vote buying and vote selling) between the politicians and the voters are both bad and deplorable. If we really need real change, genuine change, let us discourage the politicians to buy our votes. What is three or four days pleasure and enjoyment after casting your votes? This is just short term and temporary relief but not a solution to our poverty and the ills of our society as a whole. It is quite enough that some of us can approach some incumbent politicians who are kind and generous and have granted our requests for financial assistance for our hospitalization problems, and in some occasions, to buy medicines we badly needed. We should not add burden to them anymore by allowing them to spend millions and millions of pesos to buy our votes during election time. This is a bad practice and should be eradicated now in our system and character as a people. Enough is enough .If they have good track records /good performances during their office tenures and they would run for re-elections, then we should re-elect them. It is much better, appreciable and meaningful if the millions and millions of money spent by the politicians to buy votes during election time will be used instead to buy plenty of the most needed medicines for our hospitals nationwide so that all confined patients, particularly the indigents and the admitted PhilHealth and non-PhilHealth members, including us (in case we get sick), can be provided with the intended prescribed medicines for theirs and our sicknesses and diseases. We should stop selling our votes now starting these coming barangay elections to be conducted before the end of this year. As well as the next election of 2013 and the rest of the elections to come. We must do it now until the end. And we can if we will.
You might ask:”You are so daring in admonishing us to stop selling our votes. Did you do it yourself? My answer is YES, I’m doing it myself. Since I became a voter, I could not remember selling my right to vote for a few hundred pesos even once during elections. Although there were two occasions during elections that my name was included in the list of voters who were going to receive a few hundred pesos from a moneyed politician. However, I told my distant relative to tell his older sibling to delete my name in the list. He told me:”Sayang, kuarta na na.Maayo nalang na para nimo. Anugon nga imong guibalibaran”, he said in Cebuano.(What a waste, it’s money already. That’s good for you. Why do you have to refuse it?)
Candidly speaking, if any politician will give me money outside election period, I will accept it with great thankfulness because I’m a poor man. It only means that he/she wants to help me even in small way. Matter-of-factly,until now I don’t own a house and is always renting and don’t even have my own computer/laptop for my own use until this very moment since I have a very low income. My article-based honorariums are very small. I’m very glad that a certain businessman in good standing has generously allow me to use his computer where I can encode, correct and store my articles for future needs and referrences.But I know without even telling me to do so that I will just voluntarily stop using his computer, if only I have the money now to buy my own laptop. Nonetheless, how can I stop using it(even if I like) when I cannot buy my own? Editors of newspapers here in region 8(Leyte and Samar) and I believe also in other places of publications, will no longer accept type-written articles but encoded ones and to be emailed. Unlike before, nowadays Editors and other members of newspapers or magazines personnel do not want anymore to encode submitted articles. They just want to copy and paste, which is much easier and faster. I hope that I have a well-to-do relative who can read this article and can well afford, and has the magnanimity to buy me as a gift a laptop for my personal use so that I can start weaning myself from the reliance on my benefactor’s computer. But when this will happen? I do not know. Only time will tell.
Where can you find in the Philippines a writer who also sells community and national newspapers in the streets? That’s a rare and unusual thing. But that is actually happening to me. Nonetheless, during election time, if any politician will give me money through his/her leader, which is an obvious sign or act of buying my vote and your votes, I will strongly refused it despite of whatever kind of explanation and persuasion he/she will utterly do. Since I was able to do It myself with patience and determination and will continue to do it, I know for sure that you can also do it if you will.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Surveys On Candidates During Elections Should Be Banned
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
When was this so-called survey on candidates started in the Philippines? Who initiated it? As long as I can remember since I became a voter, it was only during the recent years that survey on the popularity of a candidate or candidates have began. However, this kind of survey that survey agencies have utilized is not satisfying if any person would look at its procedure in collecting “specimen” for interviews. With respondents of less than three thousands gathered from various places to gauge a presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates’ popularity rate could not really represent the bulk of majority of the 50M plus Filipino voters. Yet this was the way we were led to believe by the survey agencies that conducted the surveys of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates during the recent and the first automated polls on May 10,2010 national and local elections.
How can such popularity rate results of percentages taken from the selected respondents for the two highest positions of the Republic of the Philippines represents the voices, the minds and the sentiments of the rest of the 50M plus Filipino voters in the country? There are still many municipalities and cities in the entire archipelago that were not covered by the survey agencies. The surveys cannot make me believe on the explanations, equations and ratios in survey results. I have the belief and the conviction that logical and analytical thinkers could not also believe nor accept their kind of report or explanations regarding their system.
However, this scheme has pre-conditioned some voters’ mind with a “lean on decision” out of convenience and have stopped using their brains to really analyze and evaluate the given survey results which were based only on a very small fraction of the entire population. This is the reason that survey results could not be relied upon. It has only provided a mindset that has no firm grasp on the real condition of those candidates running for either the presidential or Vice-presidential seat.
The better ways to anchor on our personal choices of candidates running for the highest down to the lowest positions in the government service is to dig deep on their family background, characteristic traits, academic side, track records and the agenda or programs of government if they will be elected in the positions they are aspiring for. These are the most effective ways that every wise voter must take into consideration during elections. Let us not allow ourselves to be influenced by survey results even if such kind of measure on the candidates popularity is branded as “survey science” or science survey” whatever that means.
Is the conduct of surveys on candidates’ popularity in selected areas a voluntary job? Or is a presidential or Vice-presidential candidate/s pay for it? If a candidate or candidates seeking for the highest position of the Land have paid for the conduct of surveys, how are they paying it? Conducting of political surveys with payments is disadvantageous to candidates who have limited funds to spend. But more serious is that only a few places were subjected to surveys while huge chunks of the country’s population remain untouched by the survey agencies. Hence, this system is considered as unfair and unjust to other candidates and also to the voters themselves who need to be properly informed. Because of this, I would like to suggest to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) that surveys on candidates running for president and Vice-president and other government positions should be banned or abolished.
On the other hand, we can have nationwide surveys (in every cities and municipalities in the whole archipelago)on the health conditions of our people, population rate, nutrition, employment, migration, diseases, and breastfeeding of babies and non-breastfeeding of babies, agriculture, educational system, poverty level, among other things.
If a law is necessary to effect the banning or the abolition of political surveys, our legislators in Congress should consider enacting such kind of law. In other words, let us go back to the most basic measures in choosing and electing competent candidates who run for public offices. Let us also stop selling our votes for a thousand or several hundred of pesos come election time. Our politicians in turn should also stop buying votes. Who were those politicians in the past who initiated the buying of votes from the electorate during elections? They should realize that what they have done is a great disservice to the country. It was also reportedly revealed on TV that two of the provinces that were allegedly higher spenders during the first automation polls on May 10, 2010 elections were Sarangani and Southern Leyte. The buying and selling of votes has become a bad habit. Some voters who used to receive money during elections from some politicians would not go anymore to the precinct to cast their ballots, if not a single politician or candidate has given them money, three, two or one day before voting time. I have stated this because some voters by their own volition have revealed this to me.
Nevertheless, if each and every one of us, voters, would resolve to really stop selling our votes by refusing to accept money from the politicians during elections, we can do it.Yes, we can do it. If we give more importance to our right of suffrage and keep our dignities intact, considering that our right is sacred and priceless, then we can stop now selling our votes. Accepting money from any politician or candidate during elections-that is three, two or one day before voting time, means that you are selling your vote and you lose half of your dignity as a voter.
Do you not know that politicians who have spend millions and millions of money during elections to buy votes are not happy after all? Let us pity and be kind to the politicians.Yes, let us pity and be kind to them, also. Much more let us pity and be kind to ourselves, too. They are only force to do it because they want to win in the elections. They want to serve the Filipino people for some purpose that they themselves know, coupled with personal interest of course, which is but natural for every person in any kind of endeavour.They want to build names for themselves to be remember well after their passing by the following generations. We only hope that they choose to build good names rather than bad names that can reap for themselves blessings instead of curses. We also hope that trustworthy service to the nation is the topmost part of their intentions and priorities in seeking for elective positions in the Government.
But this kind of business activity (vote buying and vote selling) between the politicians and the voters are both bad and deplorable. If we really need real change, genuine change, let us discourage the politicians to buy our votes. What is three or four days pleasure and enjoyment after casting your votes? This is just short term and temporary relief but not a solution to our poverty and the ills of our society as a whole. It is quite enough that some of us can approach some incumbent politicians who are kind and generous and have granted our requests for financial assistance for our hospitalization problems, and in some occasions, to buy medicines we badly needed. We should not add burden to them anymore by allowing them to spend millions and millions of pesos to buy our votes during election time. This is a bad practice and should be eradicated now in our system and character as a people. Enough is enough .If they have good track records /good performances during their office tenures and they would run for re-elections, then we should re-elect them. It is much better, appreciable and meaningful if the millions and millions of money spent by the politicians to buy votes during election time will be used instead to buy plenty of the most needed medicines for our hospitals nationwide so that all confined patients, particularly the indigents and the admitted PhilHealth and non-PhilHealth members, including us (in case we get sick), can be provided with the intended prescribed medicines for theirs and our sicknesses and diseases. We should stop selling our votes now starting these coming barangay elections to be conducted before the end of this year. As well as the next election of 2013 and the rest of the elections to come. We must do it now until the end. And we can if we will.
You might ask:”You are so daring in admonishing us to stop selling our votes. Did you do it yourself? My answer is YES, I’m doing it myself. Since I became a voter, I could not remember selling my right to vote for a few hundred pesos even once during elections. Although there were two occasions during elections that my name was included in the list of voters who were going to receive a few hundred pesos from a moneyed politician. However, I told my distant relative to tell his older sibling to delete my name in the list. He told me:”Sayang, kuarta na na.Maayo nalang na para nimo. Anugon nga imong guibalibaran”, he said in Cebuano.(What a waste, it’s money already. That’s good for you. Why do you have to refuse it?)
Candidly speaking, if any politician will give me money outside election period, I will accept it with great thankfulness because I’m a poor man. It only means that he/she wants to help me even in small way. Matter-of-factly,until now I don’t own a house and is always renting and don’t even have my own computer/laptop for my own use until this very moment since I have a very low income. My article-based honorariums are very small. I’m very glad that a certain businessman in good standing has generously allow me to use his computer where I can encode, correct and store my articles for future needs and referrences.But I know without even telling me to do so that I will just voluntarily stop using his computer, if only I have the money now to buy my own laptop. Nonetheless, how can I stop using it(even if I like) when I cannot buy my own? Editors of newspapers here in region 8(Leyte and Samar) and I believe also in other places of publications, will no longer accept type-written articles but encoded ones and to be emailed. Unlike before, nowadays Editors and other members of newspapers or magazines personnel do not want anymore to encode submitted articles. They just want to copy and paste, which is much easier and faster. I hope that I have a well-to-do relative who can read this article and can well afford, and has the magnanimity to buy me as a gift a laptop for my personal use so that I can start weaning myself from the reliance on my benefactor’s computer. But when this will happen? I do not know. Only time will tell.
Where can you find in the Philippines a writer who also sells community and national newspapers in the streets? That’s a rare and unusual thing. But that is actually happening to me. Nonetheless, during election time, if any politician will give me money through his/her leader, which is an obvious sign or act of buying my vote and your votes, I will strongly refused it despite of whatever kind of explanation and persuasion he/she will utterly do. Since I was able to do It myself with patience and determination and will continue to do it, I know for sure that you can also do it if you will.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Monday, July 5, 2010
Southern Leyte Province Celebrates Its 50th Golden Year Anniversary
July 5,2010
Southern Leyte Province Celebrates Its 50th Golden Year Anniversary
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The province o Southern Leyte which was part of the mother province of Leyte in the past, has celebrated its 50th Golden Year anniversary on July 1, 2010,50 years after it became as a separate province on July 1,1960.
The provincehood of another part of Leyte Island known as Southern Leyte was worked out by the late Congressman and Speaker Nicanor Espina Yñiguez during his incumbency with the late President Carlos P. Garcia signing the law.
Seven-Day Activities
The seven-day activities in conjunction with the Golden Year celebration started on June 25,2010 up to July one. Some of the series of widely covered activities were 6 sports events like cycling competition, inter-town boxing and inter-town basketball,airsoft fest, lawn tennis,motorcross,shoot fest,barangay contest, unveiling of legislative marker,cookfest,adventure race,socio-cultural night, Sinugdan Festival, ad search for Ms. Southern Leyte and awarding of most outstanding Southern Leyteños.
Newly-sworn and re-elected Congressman Roger Mercado in his speech said that “we are fortunate that we were able to reach the 50th golden year anniversary of the province of Southern Leyte’”. This is rare, he said, since some of us have not made it to celebrate with us in this eventful occasion.
The Congressman also expressed his great thanks to all people in the province who supported him and his party during the recent first automation Polls on May 10, 2010.His coalition party won by landslide against their main rivals.
He urged the people in the province to give their cooperation and support and help them in their works as public servants.
He also enjoined all government employees to act in most legal ways, be efficient in their respective jobs and lead modest life.
Mayor Maloney Samaco gave his welcome address to the huge crowd at the sunken garden during the anniversary program.Re-elected Governor Damian Mercado for his part read the introduction of the guest speaker Buenaventura Go-Soco, Regional NEDA Director.
In his long speech G0-Soco narrated in details Southern Leyte’s humble beginnings and its gradual rise to development since it become a province in terms of infrastructures, eco-tourism, business and trade and other related endeavors that make the place what it is today.
Dying State
However, his talk about Southern Leyte’s abaca industry was somewhat ironic. It projected a healthy abaca production, which was true in the past years, but is currently in its dying state due to the past plague of bunchy top disease that wipe out its several hectares of abaca plantations throughout the province.
The chemical sprays costing millions of pesos used by the agriculture technicians and abaca farmers in affected areas became ineffective in preventing and eradicating the dreaded disease in the municipalities where abaca plantations have existed.
The airborne and contagious disease can be transmitted thru cutting instruments like scythe and bolo if used in cutting the diseased abaca and use it also on cutting the healthy abacas. This mute but destructive mode of transmission was later discovered only after it contaminated huge hectares of abaca plantations in various barangays including Maasin’s.
Bulks and bulks of abaca plantations affected by the disease were uprooted and burnt. The reported sprouting of sparse abaca suckers found lately in some barangays, nonetheless, is not yet a guarantee that the dying abaca industry will be revived.
Morning Mass
Earlier during the Golden Year anniversary, a morning Mass was held at the Maasin Catholic Cathedral officiated by Bishop Precioso Cantillas with the assistance of some priests. It was attended mostly by the city, national and provincial officials and employees and some sympathizers, supporters and some folks.
It was followed by a parade that started at the Anatalio Gaviola plaza and participated in, among others, by all government offices’ heads and their personnel including DENR,DA,Post office, Provincial Hospital and Rural Health Unit personnel,banks,NSO,PNP,DepEd,city enforcers,muslim community, city and capitol employees,re-elected provincial, city and municipal Mayors,17 Sinugdan Festival contingents,STI,SJC,MCC,CM,Maasin Christian Academy, winners to Ms. Southern Leyte 2010 and her court.
Sinugdan Festival
The Sinugdan Festival participants showed their dancing skills during the less than three-hour long parade towards the Capitol Site where the provincial capitol and the sunken garden were located.
While all the participating public officials and personnel and employees of all government offices were in marching and walking pace, the contingents did theirs in different ways. Clad in decorative and colorful attires they danced their way with grace and in various styles that became the center of attraction by onlookers and kibitzers.
The dancing contingents seemed oblivious of the distance from the public plaza down to the Capitol Site g that they continue their dancing movements until the long parade reached sunken garden where they huge throng of participant have converged.
At the stage, among others, were Congressman Roger Mercado, Governor Damian Mercado, Maasin Mayor Maloney Samaco, some municipal mayors,SP members, some visitors,Ms. Southern Leyte and her court, representatives of the posthumous awardees of the Most Outstanding Southern Leyteños.
Dancing Competition
Less than three hours later, after the anniversary luncheon, dancing competitions dubbed as Sinugdan Festival has started which lasted until past 7:00 p.m.A Fifteen-minute fireworks display followed after the hosts of the Sinugdan Festival have announced the winners: Festival Queen who was the focal point of attraction who danced with grace went to Liloan (with their lilo-lilo festival). 1)Grand Champion-Maasin City contingent with its presentation of “Paghimugso Festival”; 2)First Runner-up Anahawan;3)Second Runner-up-Padre Burgos; 4)Third Runner –up -St.Bernard; 5)Fourth Runner-up-Silago. Prizes for the winners in the aforesaid competition were: P75, 000.00; P50, 000.00; P40, 000.00; P30, 000.00.
It was announced that according to the Governor, the Maasin contingent shall be sent as participant to the Cebu Sinulog Festival to be held in the upcoming January 2011.
Invited Sinugdan Festival judge Daio Ballesteros, non-Southern Leyteño, stressed that the concept of a contingent’s dance should be relevant to the theme, and that there should be a clear storyline. He hinted that the dancers themselves and their respective choreographers should attend a workshop on such topic at the Silliman University to acquire more knowledge and to improve their skills. Another Judge of the dance competition was Rev. Arniel Borromeo.
Winners of the Ms. Southern Leyte 2010 beauty and brain contest were: 1)Ms. Southern Leyte 2010 winner-Sarah Bihaibah of San Juan; 2)First Runner-Up- Rhea Isabel Palima Conato of Maasin City; 3)Second Runner-Up -Quency Jusay of Macrohon; 4)Third Runner-Up-Jasmin Amper Salvador of Tomas Oppus; 5)Fourth Runner-Up-Janice Portia Q. Uy of Sogod.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Southern Leyte Province Celebrates Its 50th Golden Year Anniversary
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The province o Southern Leyte which was part of the mother province of Leyte in the past, has celebrated its 50th Golden Year anniversary on July 1, 2010,50 years after it became as a separate province on July 1,1960.
The provincehood of another part of Leyte Island known as Southern Leyte was worked out by the late Congressman and Speaker Nicanor Espina Yñiguez during his incumbency with the late President Carlos P. Garcia signing the law.
Seven-Day Activities
The seven-day activities in conjunction with the Golden Year celebration started on June 25,2010 up to July one. Some of the series of widely covered activities were 6 sports events like cycling competition, inter-town boxing and inter-town basketball,airsoft fest, lawn tennis,motorcross,shoot fest,barangay contest, unveiling of legislative marker,cookfest,adventure race,socio-cultural night, Sinugdan Festival, ad search for Ms. Southern Leyte and awarding of most outstanding Southern Leyteños.
Newly-sworn and re-elected Congressman Roger Mercado in his speech said that “we are fortunate that we were able to reach the 50th golden year anniversary of the province of Southern Leyte’”. This is rare, he said, since some of us have not made it to celebrate with us in this eventful occasion.
The Congressman also expressed his great thanks to all people in the province who supported him and his party during the recent first automation Polls on May 10, 2010.His coalition party won by landslide against their main rivals.
He urged the people in the province to give their cooperation and support and help them in their works as public servants.
He also enjoined all government employees to act in most legal ways, be efficient in their respective jobs and lead modest life.
Mayor Maloney Samaco gave his welcome address to the huge crowd at the sunken garden during the anniversary program.Re-elected Governor Damian Mercado for his part read the introduction of the guest speaker Buenaventura Go-Soco, Regional NEDA Director.
In his long speech G0-Soco narrated in details Southern Leyte’s humble beginnings and its gradual rise to development since it become a province in terms of infrastructures, eco-tourism, business and trade and other related endeavors that make the place what it is today.
Dying State
However, his talk about Southern Leyte’s abaca industry was somewhat ironic. It projected a healthy abaca production, which was true in the past years, but is currently in its dying state due to the past plague of bunchy top disease that wipe out its several hectares of abaca plantations throughout the province.
The chemical sprays costing millions of pesos used by the agriculture technicians and abaca farmers in affected areas became ineffective in preventing and eradicating the dreaded disease in the municipalities where abaca plantations have existed.
The airborne and contagious disease can be transmitted thru cutting instruments like scythe and bolo if used in cutting the diseased abaca and use it also on cutting the healthy abacas. This mute but destructive mode of transmission was later discovered only after it contaminated huge hectares of abaca plantations in various barangays including Maasin’s.
Bulks and bulks of abaca plantations affected by the disease were uprooted and burnt. The reported sprouting of sparse abaca suckers found lately in some barangays, nonetheless, is not yet a guarantee that the dying abaca industry will be revived.
Morning Mass
Earlier during the Golden Year anniversary, a morning Mass was held at the Maasin Catholic Cathedral officiated by Bishop Precioso Cantillas with the assistance of some priests. It was attended mostly by the city, national and provincial officials and employees and some sympathizers, supporters and some folks.
It was followed by a parade that started at the Anatalio Gaviola plaza and participated in, among others, by all government offices’ heads and their personnel including DENR,DA,Post office, Provincial Hospital and Rural Health Unit personnel,banks,NSO,PNP,DepEd,city enforcers,muslim community, city and capitol employees,re-elected provincial, city and municipal Mayors,17 Sinugdan Festival contingents,STI,SJC,MCC,CM,Maasin Christian Academy, winners to Ms. Southern Leyte 2010 and her court.
Sinugdan Festival
The Sinugdan Festival participants showed their dancing skills during the less than three-hour long parade towards the Capitol Site where the provincial capitol and the sunken garden were located.
While all the participating public officials and personnel and employees of all government offices were in marching and walking pace, the contingents did theirs in different ways. Clad in decorative and colorful attires they danced their way with grace and in various styles that became the center of attraction by onlookers and kibitzers.
The dancing contingents seemed oblivious of the distance from the public plaza down to the Capitol Site g that they continue their dancing movements until the long parade reached sunken garden where they huge throng of participant have converged.
At the stage, among others, were Congressman Roger Mercado, Governor Damian Mercado, Maasin Mayor Maloney Samaco, some municipal mayors,SP members, some visitors,Ms. Southern Leyte and her court, representatives of the posthumous awardees of the Most Outstanding Southern Leyteños.
Dancing Competition
Less than three hours later, after the anniversary luncheon, dancing competitions dubbed as Sinugdan Festival has started which lasted until past 7:00 p.m.A Fifteen-minute fireworks display followed after the hosts of the Sinugdan Festival have announced the winners: Festival Queen who was the focal point of attraction who danced with grace went to Liloan (with their lilo-lilo festival). 1)Grand Champion-Maasin City contingent with its presentation of “Paghimugso Festival”; 2)First Runner-up Anahawan;3)Second Runner-up-Padre Burgos; 4)Third Runner –up -St.Bernard; 5)Fourth Runner-up-Silago. Prizes for the winners in the aforesaid competition were: P75, 000.00; P50, 000.00; P40, 000.00; P30, 000.00.
It was announced that according to the Governor, the Maasin contingent shall be sent as participant to the Cebu Sinulog Festival to be held in the upcoming January 2011.
Invited Sinugdan Festival judge Daio Ballesteros, non-Southern Leyteño, stressed that the concept of a contingent’s dance should be relevant to the theme, and that there should be a clear storyline. He hinted that the dancers themselves and their respective choreographers should attend a workshop on such topic at the Silliman University to acquire more knowledge and to improve their skills. Another Judge of the dance competition was Rev. Arniel Borromeo.
Winners of the Ms. Southern Leyte 2010 beauty and brain contest were: 1)Ms. Southern Leyte 2010 winner-Sarah Bihaibah of San Juan; 2)First Runner-Up- Rhea Isabel Palima Conato of Maasin City; 3)Second Runner-Up -Quency Jusay of Macrohon; 4)Third Runner-Up-Jasmin Amper Salvador of Tomas Oppus; 5)Fourth Runner-Up-Janice Portia Q. Uy of Sogod.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Friday, July 2, 2010
MCA's Palermo Wins In On-The-Spot Painting Contest
July 3,2010
MCA’s Palermo Wins In On-The-Spot Painting Contest
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Abby Dyanne Daclan Palermo, an elementary student of the Maasin Christian Academy in brgy.Mantahan has won in the provincial on-the-spot painting contest held recently at the Provincial Capitol building here.
The young painter, who is a daughter of a seaman, bested other 21 contestants from different schools of the province. Her winning streak of the contest was not that easy. It passed a two-hour long meticulous evaluation from the three-men team judges composed of undefeated third termer councilor Salvador “boy” Abiera,Francisco “Frankie” Lim and SJC instructor Ed Garino Tabinas.
Abiera, who is also an artist and architect himself, disclosed that the paintings judgment were based on 4 creteria:1)Relevance to the theme-Southern Leyte at 50-35%; 2)visual impact-30%; 3)rendering and proportion-20%; 4)originality-15%. He implied that Palermo’s works has met the 4 criteria in higher percentage compared to her competitors.
Gerson Destora of the College of Maasin reaped the second place. Manny Vincent Carbonilla of Asuncion Elementary School got the third place.Palermo,Destora and Carbonilla all received cash prizes of P3,000.00, P2,000.00 and P1,000.00 respectively. Like the Quiz Bee winners, each amateur painter also received trophy and a medal.
There were two fourth placers in the person of Jomer Roa of the College of Maasin and Audessa Avellanosa of St.Jospeh College. Rod James Royeras also of SJC was the fifth placer.
POPCOM’s Kangelon announced to the audience during the awarding ceremony that as a contest rule, the winning paintings will become the properties of the Provincial Government, the main sponsor of the event.
In earlier quiz bee contest also participated in by 22 secondary students from various school s in Southern Leyte, Jason Tuang-Tuang of Bontoc National High School bested other contestants as the first placer. He received P3, 000.00, a trophy and a medal. ST.Thomas Aquinas College’s Pepito Manlunas, 111, bagged the second place. He got P2, 000.00, a trophy and a medal.Janin Faye Tomol of the St. Joseph College pocketed P1, 000.00,a trophy and a medal.
Velma P. Kangleon, also the Quiz Bee Committee Chairman, whose members were mostly from the Integrated Provincial Health Office( IPHO)technical team, said that the questions raised during the contest were all about Southern Leyte’s historical backgrounds.
Pictures for posterity were taken together with their respective families from each winner of the two contests, as they received their prizes, trophies and medals from the chairmen of the two committees.
Abiera, who announced the painting winners, admonished the young contestants to continue practicing and participating in the contest whenever it will be held in the province. He revealed that in the past he also participated in painting contests held in this province and had won during the Marco regime.
A friend of the first placer’s mother who congratulated Palermo, advised her to take up Fine Arts. The course is the proper and the right venue for artists to improve and hone their talents to the fullest.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
MCA’s Palermo Wins In On-The-Spot Painting Contest
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Abby Dyanne Daclan Palermo, an elementary student of the Maasin Christian Academy in brgy.Mantahan has won in the provincial on-the-spot painting contest held recently at the Provincial Capitol building here.
The young painter, who is a daughter of a seaman, bested other 21 contestants from different schools of the province. Her winning streak of the contest was not that easy. It passed a two-hour long meticulous evaluation from the three-men team judges composed of undefeated third termer councilor Salvador “boy” Abiera,Francisco “Frankie” Lim and SJC instructor Ed Garino Tabinas.
Abiera, who is also an artist and architect himself, disclosed that the paintings judgment were based on 4 creteria:1)Relevance to the theme-Southern Leyte at 50-35%; 2)visual impact-30%; 3)rendering and proportion-20%; 4)originality-15%. He implied that Palermo’s works has met the 4 criteria in higher percentage compared to her competitors.
Gerson Destora of the College of Maasin reaped the second place. Manny Vincent Carbonilla of Asuncion Elementary School got the third place.Palermo,Destora and Carbonilla all received cash prizes of P3,000.00, P2,000.00 and P1,000.00 respectively. Like the Quiz Bee winners, each amateur painter also received trophy and a medal.
There were two fourth placers in the person of Jomer Roa of the College of Maasin and Audessa Avellanosa of St.Jospeh College. Rod James Royeras also of SJC was the fifth placer.
POPCOM’s Kangelon announced to the audience during the awarding ceremony that as a contest rule, the winning paintings will become the properties of the Provincial Government, the main sponsor of the event.
In earlier quiz bee contest also participated in by 22 secondary students from various school s in Southern Leyte, Jason Tuang-Tuang of Bontoc National High School bested other contestants as the first placer. He received P3, 000.00, a trophy and a medal. ST.Thomas Aquinas College’s Pepito Manlunas, 111, bagged the second place. He got P2, 000.00, a trophy and a medal.Janin Faye Tomol of the St. Joseph College pocketed P1, 000.00,a trophy and a medal.
Velma P. Kangleon, also the Quiz Bee Committee Chairman, whose members were mostly from the Integrated Provincial Health Office( IPHO)technical team, said that the questions raised during the contest were all about Southern Leyte’s historical backgrounds.
Pictures for posterity were taken together with their respective families from each winner of the two contests, as they received their prizes, trophies and medals from the chairmen of the two committees.
Abiera, who announced the painting winners, admonished the young contestants to continue practicing and participating in the contest whenever it will be held in the province. He revealed that in the past he also participated in painting contests held in this province and had won during the Marco regime.
A friend of the first placer’s mother who congratulated Palermo, advised her to take up Fine Arts. The course is the proper and the right venue for artists to improve and hone their talents to the fullest.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
City Govt. To Construct LGU-owned Port In Guadalupe
July 2,2010
City Govt. To Construct LGU-owned Port in Guadalupe
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Maloney Samaco,the newly-re-elected second termer Maasin Mayor disclosed in his “acceptance speech” after his oath-taking ,that a plan to construct an LGU-owned port in brgy. Guadalupe (formerly Can-iwan) is welcomed by its residents.
Samaco informed that the area is conducive for docking ships and boats even during habagat season(eastwest moon wind) because of its natural barrier preventing strong winds to hit it. Unlike the Maasin port which is being subjected to constant lashing of huge waves during habagat season.
He said that barangay officials of Guadalupe even offer to convert their gymnasium into a terminal provided the City Government would build similar structure for their use.
“If other businessman is interested to construct another port in Guadalupe”, he said, “I will welcome it as well. The more we can have ports in Guadalupe, the better because I t will provide additional income to its residents and the city”.
He said that the said barangay is a good alternative in port constructions since it’s nearer to Bato and Hilongos.”Travelers and students of the city bound for Cebu City would no longer be going to farther places”, he said.
The Engineer-Sportswriter Mayor also divulged that the shipping managements of Kinswell, Gabisan and Roble have expressed their willingness to dock in Guadalupe once the port construction will be realized and completed.
He said that two of the main reasons why other small shipping companies have avoided docking at Maasin pier is because of its vulnerability to the habagat winds that would create huge waves whipping the pier. Another reason is that it will allegedly take an estimated one barrel of crude oil from Hilongos to Maasin.”But the Maasin port will remain operational for cargo ships and big passenger ships, if other shipping company is interested to dock”, he clarified.
He said that the Guadalupe port once it will be completed will connect Ubay port in Bohol.
Other things tackled during a presscon at his office were the problem on water supply. He revealed that barangays Gawisan and Cagnituan would be another sources of additional potable water for the City residents and business establishments because these two places have plenty of water. He said the inhabitants of both areas also expressed their willingness for the City Government or the Maasin Water District to tap it.
On Gaisano’s plan to conduct business here, he confided that after the first automation polls Edward Gaisano has revived his interest to open a branch in Maasain.He said he will be going to Cebu to talk and present his proposal with the businessman and to clarify and finalize whatever kind of negotiations that they are going to agree.
He further informed that construction of a sanitary landfill in Bactul 1 is underway and that the Maasin City College which he founded will continue to operate. This is in contrast to the allegations of some people, he said, that the school will be closed.”The Maasin City College will continue to operate”,he said.” In fact, our enrollment has exceeded and some students were not able to enroll”.
Class rooms are now constructed at the second floor of the buildings for additional enrollees, he said. He also confessed that students from the neighboring towns including Matalom wanted to enroll at MCC,but were refused because of lack of classrooms at this time. What he will do,he said, is to complete their submission of requirements to CHED.”There will be no increase in tuition fees as long as I’m the Mayor of Maasin”, he stressed.
He said that the projects that he has talked about were part of the 13-point agenda for the next six years. That is, he said, if you continue to give your support and the rest of the electorate shall continue to manifest theirs during his running for the third term. However, he admitted that six years are not enough to accomplish his programs due to lack of funding availability.
Earlier, an oath-taking among the City officials was held at the city gymnasium. First to take their oath of office were the City Councilors in a reverse style. It started from the 10th rank down to the number one councilor. The individual oath-taking ceremonies included Vice-Mayor Maria Effie Abiera-Sabandal were accompanied by their respective family members and relatives. All of them have taken their oath of offices before a City Judge.
Nevertheless he incumbent Mayor has taken his oath of office before the younger Abgao Barangay Captain Nacional “Nikko” Mercado. He unfolded that barangay Abgao was where he garnered the highest number of votes compared to the rest of Maasin’s 69 barangays.
In an earlier interview, he said that it’s his personal choice and” a due recognition to the efforts of the barangay officials during the recent election campaign period”.
In the same event, outgoing municipal and city councilors Conrado Galeon and Maria Essie Espina Garvez delivered their short speeches and thanked the employees and city officials for their camaraderie and good mutual relationship during their incumbency as municipal and city officials.
Galeon first served as a municipal employee for several years and later ran as municipal and as city councilor and won.Garvez has served the local government since the mayorship of Damian Mercado, now the incumbent Governor of Southern Leyte. Both councilors remained undefeated until their last terms.
Two days later a joint oath-taking of all 18 municipal, a city and provincial officials took place at the Provincial Capitol building inside the Capitol Site, a day shy from the 50th Golden Founding Day anniversary celebration of the province of Southern Leyte.
Provincial joint oath-taking was composed of all re-elected municipal Mayors, municipal councilors, city councilors, Governor, Vice-Governor, Board Members and Congressman. Re-elected Governor Damian Mercado and re-elected Congressman Roger Mercado both took their oath of office before Judge Bethany Kapili.The rest of all the re-elected officials have took their oath of office before Judge Daisy Gonzales.
Picture taking with members of the respective families among the public officials have followed after individual oath –taking and signing of the oath of statement written in Tagalog were done.
Both events were attended by some city and provincial employees, heads of offices, barangay officials, members of their respective families, relatives, friends and the press.Marinduque Governor Bong Carreon was one of the visitors who attended the joint oath –taking ceremonies.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
City Govt. To Construct LGU-owned Port in Guadalupe
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Maloney Samaco,the newly-re-elected second termer Maasin Mayor disclosed in his “acceptance speech” after his oath-taking ,that a plan to construct an LGU-owned port in brgy. Guadalupe (formerly Can-iwan) is welcomed by its residents.
Samaco informed that the area is conducive for docking ships and boats even during habagat season(eastwest moon wind) because of its natural barrier preventing strong winds to hit it. Unlike the Maasin port which is being subjected to constant lashing of huge waves during habagat season.
He said that barangay officials of Guadalupe even offer to convert their gymnasium into a terminal provided the City Government would build similar structure for their use.
“If other businessman is interested to construct another port in Guadalupe”, he said, “I will welcome it as well. The more we can have ports in Guadalupe, the better because I t will provide additional income to its residents and the city”.
He said that the said barangay is a good alternative in port constructions since it’s nearer to Bato and Hilongos.”Travelers and students of the city bound for Cebu City would no longer be going to farther places”, he said.
The Engineer-Sportswriter Mayor also divulged that the shipping managements of Kinswell, Gabisan and Roble have expressed their willingness to dock in Guadalupe once the port construction will be realized and completed.
He said that two of the main reasons why other small shipping companies have avoided docking at Maasin pier is because of its vulnerability to the habagat winds that would create huge waves whipping the pier. Another reason is that it will allegedly take an estimated one barrel of crude oil from Hilongos to Maasin.”But the Maasin port will remain operational for cargo ships and big passenger ships, if other shipping company is interested to dock”, he clarified.
He said that the Guadalupe port once it will be completed will connect Ubay port in Bohol.
Other things tackled during a presscon at his office were the problem on water supply. He revealed that barangays Gawisan and Cagnituan would be another sources of additional potable water for the City residents and business establishments because these two places have plenty of water. He said the inhabitants of both areas also expressed their willingness for the City Government or the Maasin Water District to tap it.
On Gaisano’s plan to conduct business here, he confided that after the first automation polls Edward Gaisano has revived his interest to open a branch in Maasain.He said he will be going to Cebu to talk and present his proposal with the businessman and to clarify and finalize whatever kind of negotiations that they are going to agree.
He further informed that construction of a sanitary landfill in Bactul 1 is underway and that the Maasin City College which he founded will continue to operate. This is in contrast to the allegations of some people, he said, that the school will be closed.”The Maasin City College will continue to operate”,he said.” In fact, our enrollment has exceeded and some students were not able to enroll”.
Class rooms are now constructed at the second floor of the buildings for additional enrollees, he said. He also confessed that students from the neighboring towns including Matalom wanted to enroll at MCC,but were refused because of lack of classrooms at this time. What he will do,he said, is to complete their submission of requirements to CHED.”There will be no increase in tuition fees as long as I’m the Mayor of Maasin”, he stressed.
He said that the projects that he has talked about were part of the 13-point agenda for the next six years. That is, he said, if you continue to give your support and the rest of the electorate shall continue to manifest theirs during his running for the third term. However, he admitted that six years are not enough to accomplish his programs due to lack of funding availability.
Earlier, an oath-taking among the City officials was held at the city gymnasium. First to take their oath of office were the City Councilors in a reverse style. It started from the 10th rank down to the number one councilor. The individual oath-taking ceremonies included Vice-Mayor Maria Effie Abiera-Sabandal were accompanied by their respective family members and relatives. All of them have taken their oath of offices before a City Judge.
Nevertheless he incumbent Mayor has taken his oath of office before the younger Abgao Barangay Captain Nacional “Nikko” Mercado. He unfolded that barangay Abgao was where he garnered the highest number of votes compared to the rest of Maasin’s 69 barangays.
In an earlier interview, he said that it’s his personal choice and” a due recognition to the efforts of the barangay officials during the recent election campaign period”.
In the same event, outgoing municipal and city councilors Conrado Galeon and Maria Essie Espina Garvez delivered their short speeches and thanked the employees and city officials for their camaraderie and good mutual relationship during their incumbency as municipal and city officials.
Galeon first served as a municipal employee for several years and later ran as municipal and as city councilor and won.Garvez has served the local government since the mayorship of Damian Mercado, now the incumbent Governor of Southern Leyte. Both councilors remained undefeated until their last terms.
Two days later a joint oath-taking of all 18 municipal, a city and provincial officials took place at the Provincial Capitol building inside the Capitol Site, a day shy from the 50th Golden Founding Day anniversary celebration of the province of Southern Leyte.
Provincial joint oath-taking was composed of all re-elected municipal Mayors, municipal councilors, city councilors, Governor, Vice-Governor, Board Members and Congressman. Re-elected Governor Damian Mercado and re-elected Congressman Roger Mercado both took their oath of office before Judge Bethany Kapili.The rest of all the re-elected officials have took their oath of office before Judge Daisy Gonzales.
Picture taking with members of the respective families among the public officials have followed after individual oath –taking and signing of the oath of statement written in Tagalog were done.
Both events were attended by some city and provincial employees, heads of offices, barangay officials, members of their respective families, relatives, friends and the press.Marinduque Governor Bong Carreon was one of the visitors who attended the joint oath –taking ceremonies.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
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