Thursday, June 23, 2011

Pulilan Got Talent

While the search for two additional scholars is underway, our two current scholars Patrick and Angelyn are doing well in their studies and are now officially enrolled for school year 2011-2012. They are now back in school after an exciting summer.

As I have mentioned in my previous post, we’ve decided to add two more freshmen students to sponsor this year, another pair of boy & girl, keeping the balance of gender power. Pulilan has got many young kids deserving of the opportunity to go to school and whose talent has yet to be discovered.

Eva is currently leading the effort in search of the two most deserving students amongst the many first year enrollees the Night High program has this school year. Weather is just being bad lately that house-to-house interview process has been delayed.

Meanwhile
, I hope you are as confident as I am that we have enough funds to sustain this scholarship project for years to come. We are still in dire needs of your continued support, financial or otherwise.

The kids need you. I need you.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Today I Declare Independence Day

June 12 has always been a confusing day for some of us. Most Filipinos recognize and celebrate this date to be the true Philippine Independence from the colonial Spain in 1898. But if history recalls, for awhile, we celebrated July 4th as the one, the date when United States finally recognized our independence in 1946.

This day was confusing for me big time.

As a little boy, my fondness for parades, balloons, and marching bands held every year at Rizal Park (aka Luneta) during Independence Day foolishly made me declared June 12 as my birthday, not truly knowing the real one.

Sa dami naming magkakapatid, hindi na matandaan ng ina ko kung kelan talaga ang birthday ko. Kaya nga ba Pro-RH Bill ako eh :-)

And guess what?

Only when I applied for passport to go work in Saudi Arabia that I learned thru official records that June 23 is the correct date, well, that’s according to our municipal records. Who knows if that’s really accurate?

And that’s not the only confusing part!

As I was frantically searching from our municipal legal records, I could never find my name in the June listing of all 1961 newborns. I remember going thru all the books and finally found my name in their October 1962 listings instead.

Apparently, I was born in 1962, and my parents waited four months or so to officially register my presence in this world.

Oh well, no matter what the historians say...and our municipal records say...and my passport says...still, today, June 12, I declare Independence Day...

...and also my birthday!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Pro-RH Bill

The debate about RH Bill has been dominating the political scene even before I came back from my recent trips.


Say whatever you want but this bill will surely help alleviate the growing census numbers that has been dragging down our country down even more to its current economic level.



I would think by now people would have realized that poverty is another byproduct of overpopulation. The more kids you have, the more resources and necessities are needed to give those kids a good quality life.

RH Bill is about educating couples, especially the poor ones, to make informed decisions about responsible parenthood, giving them knowledge and options on how to plan their kids, allowing them free access to contraceptives if one chooses to.

That parenting is not about just making babies.

I am deeply concern every time I visit with the growing number of street kids roaming around the city. A constant reminder of how unlucky they are to have been brought to earth by uneducated and irresponsible parents. It pains me to witness these kids not knowing what their future holds much less what to put on that empty stomach every day.

I am Catholic but not proud of what the anti-RH bill church is doing.

Go forth and multiply my ass!