Bonggang-bonggang Ma at Pa

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Eh ano ang naman masama kung may subliminal message ang mga relief goods na pinamimigay nila.. Eh kiber n’yo ba kung tumitingin s’ya ng mga bote-bote ng mga nakalalasing na inumin.. Malay ba nila kung ang makatatanggap ng food packages eh voter o hindi. Pakialam ba n’ya kung sandamakmak ang nagpe-Facebook na walang magawa sa buhay nila kundi maglagay ng mga pictures/status ng mga sinalanta ng bonggang-bonggang baha ni Ondoy. Basta gusto n’yang i-regulate ito period. At akala n’yo sila lang ang may monopoly ang wastong kilos at pag-uugali sa mga oras na may mga taong nangangailangan ng tulong, aba’y eto at eto pa. ABER!!

 

Barrio Bayanihan for Ondoy Victims

Ondoy’s victims are in dire need of our help.  Reyna Elena, the La Capitana of Barrio Siete who is based in Philadelphia, USA started an online fund drive for Ondoy victims hours after the disaster struck. Here is the link on how you can do your part.

Here is  a list of phone numbers from NGO’s and government agencies where assistance are also channeled.

1. National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) (+632-9125668, +632-9111406, +632-9115061, +632-9122665) Help hotlines: (+65 734-2118, 734-2120) ndcchelpdesk@gmail.com
2. Philippine Coast Guard (+632-5276136)
3. Air Force (+63908-1126976, +632-8535023)
4. Metro Manila Development Authority (136)
5. Marikina City Rescue (+632-6462436, +632-6462423, +632920-9072902)
6. Pasig Rescue Emergency Number (+632-6310099)
7. Quezon City Rescue (161)
8. San Juan City Hall Command Post (+632-4681697)
9. Bureau of Fire Protection Region III (Central Luzon) Hotline: (+63245-9634376)
10. Senator Dick Gordon (+639178997898, +63938-444BOYS, +632-9342118, +632-4338528)
11. Senator Manny Villar (+639174226800. +639172414864, +639276751981)

Civil Society/ Media

1. Philippine National Red Cross (143, +632-5270000)
2. Philippine National Red Cross Rizal Chapter operations center hotline: (+632-6350922, +632-6347824)
3. Go to GMA Facebook page & post complete addresses and names of people in need of immediate help.
4. ABS-CBN Typhoon Ondoy Hotline: (+632-4163641)
5. Jam 88.3: (+632- 6318803) or SMS at JAM (space) 883 (space) your message to 2968
6. GMA Kapuso Helpline: (+632-9811950-59)

 

First Flood

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My sister and her friend walked for four hours from Ortigas to Pasay City last Saturday. They couldn’t take the MRT because it stopped its operation. They waded knee length floods along EDSA and when they reached home, more floods welcomed them. Our house in Pasay City experienced its first flood ever.

On the same day, our school helper texted me and said that my classroom was one of the rooms in our school used as temporary shelter for those who were affected by the flood. I didn’t get the details but I guess the creek at the back of our school overflowed. Our school was flooded but its two and three-story buildings can be used for this kind of emergency. I’ve been in the service for a long time but this was the first time our school was flooded like this.

Today’s headlines are full of sad stories. At this time, there are those who are still waiting for rescue and I hope help and assistance are on its way. Regular TV and radio programs continuously air updates. The most heartbreaking images are those of drenched and mud-covered children. My heart goes out to those who lost their love ones.

We are again in our ‘bayanihan’ mode and those who were spared have wasted no time to help the victims.

The video was taken last Saturday around 11:00 in the morning in Cavite. My sons were beside me and even sang ‘rain, rain, go away.’ Little did I know that at that time, ‘Ondoy’ was wreaking havoc in the metropolis.

 

In King’s Cross

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
By JK Rowling

 

Two favorites

Is Holly Golightly The Great Gatsby in drag? by Wayne Gooderham

To start with, let’s take a look at the similarities between Jay Gatsby and Holly Golightly. Attractive, charismatic and enigmatic? Check. Connection with organised crime? Check. Penchant for hosting parties and affected speech inflections (old sport/darling)? Check/check. Cessation of said parties once romance blossoms? Check. Humble origins, changes of identity, driven by dreams and ideals leading ultimately to death and exile? Check, check, check, check.

Then there are the technical similarities between the two novels. Gatsby and Holly are both subjects of first-person narratives, the narrators being (let’s be brutally honest here) a pair of non-entities living vicariously through the lives of their more glamorous neighbours. Nick Carraway and the unnamed narrator of B@T (who for ease of reference I’m going to follow Holly’s example and call Fred) are new arrivals to New York, their outsider status described using strikingly similar imagery. From The Great Gatsby we have arguably the most beautiful passage in a novel brimming with beautiful passages:

“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

Holly’s summation of Fred is a little more succinct:

“He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against the glass is liable to look stupid.”

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Faith and Science

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In January 1933, the Belgian mathematician and Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre traveled with Albert Einstein to California for a series of seminars. After the Belgian detailed his Big Bang theory, Einstein stood up applauded, and said, “This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened.”

‘A Day Without Yesterday’: Georges Lemaitre & the Big Bang

 

Litratong Pinoy 022: Lakad

Ang Chocolate Hills sa anggulong  diagonal. Tanong ko sa sarili, ganito kaya ang view na mga ibon sa pag-sirko-sirko nila sa himpapawid kung sila ay lumilipad? Isa sa mga naging destinasyon ko at ng aking mga kaibigan noong nakaraang taon ay ang magandang lugar ng Bohol. Nakita namin ang mga tarsiers, simbahan ng Baclayon, nag-river cruise sa Loboc, ang Blood Compact Site. S’yempre hindi maku-kompleto ang lakad sa Bohol kung wala ang pagbisita sa Chocolate Hills. Hindi mukhang chocolate kase hindi naman summer nang kami ay nagpunta. Sa tingin ko ang kulay ay mas malapit sa buko-pandan.

Para sa temang LAKAD  ng Litratong Pinoy, ito ang aking kontribusyon. Para sa mga iba pang lakad, punta na kayo dito.