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(Mis)readings(Mis)readingsA blog featuring counterobservations on events and texts from the vantage point of an eccentric, optically inconvenienced, and culturally dispossessed resident from the Southern Philippines. Articles
Jail Palparan!
2012-01-09 17:00:00 I wrote a short post about the search for Ret. Maj. Gen. Palparan for Global Voices Online a week ago. Notorious as the ?The Butcher,? Palparan has been charged with the kidnapping and serious illegal detention of University of the Philippines More About: Human Rights
The Philippine Educational System [1]
2012-01-06 15:13:00 Education is generally described as ?the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction.?[2] It is a basic human right because it is considered one of the fundamental guarantees that enable an individual to live his full potential as a human More About: Education , System , Educational , Historia
How Much of the Philippines Have I Visited?
2012-01-03 17:00:00 Not much, really. How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan! Created by Eugene Villar. Filed under: Ephemera, My Life Tagged: Cebu , Iloilo , Lakbayan, Panay, Philippines, Travel
Sendong Aftermath: Fragments from Cagayan De Oro
2012-01-01 17:48:00 ?Mahadlok mi kung ulan kay mudako ang tubig.? There used to be some houses by the river shore where some men and women were busy washing their clothes. Just a little further ahead is the covered court, lately swelling with More About: Education , Philippines , Disaster , My Life , Typhoon
The Filipino Youth and Social Transformation [1]
2011-12-26 05:31:00 In these times of national crisis and global upheavals, there is a need for an active youth that can unite with the oppressed in struggle against injustice and tyranny. But if one looks at popular portrayals of the Filipino youth, More About: Social , Youth , Historia
It?s Class and Practice, Stupid!
2011-12-21 17:00:00 ?You?re deceiving yourself! Even if you did believe in God , it would make no sense to believe alone. You?d have to believe in him the same way the poor do; you?d have to become one of them. It?s only by More About: Spirituality , Practice , Stupid , Snow
Death in the Andes: The Revolution as Nightmare and the Empowered Masses as
2011-12-19 17:00:00 The charge that all revolutions are bound to devour its own children is one of the oldest and most common admonitions against the people?s collectively rising up to effect massive social transformations. Mario Vargas Llosa?s Death in the Andes gives another variation to this old worn-out theme. More About: Books , Peru , Nightmare , Revolution
Economics Contra Spirituality
2011-12-17 17:00:00 Last December 10, a fellow jeepney passenger, an old man sporting round glasses, a Taqiyah cap and a Rasputin-like goatee, began a conversation with me while I was on my way to the assembly area of the International Human Rights More About: Religion , Church , Economics , Life , Spirituality
A Brief Impression on In the Time of the Butterflies
2011-12-16 18:32:00 The scenery along the road to Roxas City made Julia Alvarez?s In the Time of the Butterflies come to life as I read the novel in the bus. All the rice crops, sugarcane plantations, sleepy town centers, and peasants tending More About: Books , Dominican Republic
Memory and History
2011-12-12 03:15:00 Memory is life, borne by living societies founded in its name. It remains in permanent evolution, open to the dialectic of remembering and forgetting, unconscious of its successive deformations, vulnerable to manipulation and appropriation, susceptible to being long dormant and More About: History , Memory , Historia
Education Not for $ale
2011-12-06 17:00:00 This is the rallying cry of youth and students in Panay and Guimaras as we prepare for the Dec.8 ?Day of Action.? Realizing education?s importance in molding future citizens who can aid in nation-building, we have repeatedly stood up to More About: Education , Students , Youth , Protest , Iloilo
Uphold the Right to Education: Fight for a Higher Budget for Social Service
2011-12-05 16:43:00 All over the world, mass movements against worsening poverty, social inequality and government budget cuts for education and social services are unfolding daily. These popular uprisings have risen up against dictatorial regimes and the dominant economic system that has concentrated More About: Social , Education , Student , Service , Youth
Isulong ang rebolusyunaryong tradisyon ng Katipunan at Kabataang Makabayan!
2011-11-29 17:00:00 Ipinagdiriwang natin ngayong araw ang rebolusyunaryong tradisyon, militansya at katapangan ng mga kabataang Pilipino. Simula?t sapul, inspirado at tinatanglawan ng sulo nina Gat Andres Bonifacio at iba pang mga kabataang kasapi ng Katipunan at ng Kabataang Makabayan ang ating pagsusumikap More About: Revolution , Historia
The Truth has to be Repeated
2011-11-26 17:00:00 The truth has to be repeated. It doesn?t become stale just because it has been told once. So keep repeating it. Don?t bother about who has listened, who not listened? the media and the other institutions of power are so More About: Truth
Literature as Spectacle
2011-11-18 17:00:00 The literary world is no longer a space of contemplation, subversion, spiritually enriching escapism, or discovery, but one of spectacle. Nor is the book any longer ?the temple of the soul? ?it is a bare bummed product little different from More About: Literature , Books
The End of an Era
2008-03-31 18:01:00 From one of Sun.Star Daily’s past issues: Thursday, March 27, 2008 Editorial : Winding down of an era THAT TV footage showing former president Fidel V. Ramos dedicating a song to former president Cory Aquino, who is fighting colon cancer, shows how far an era has receded. While Edsa 1 of 1986 was primarily an undertaking of an entire people, ... More About: News , Politics , History , Opinion
160-Year Old Oslob Church Gutted by Fire
2008-03-29 17:01:00 Horrors of horrors, that was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw a local paper’s front page last Thursday. It carried the news of the destruction of one of Cebu’s oldest churches. The 160-year old Immaculate Conception Parish and its convent in the southern town of Oslob was gutted by fire. The ... More About: Religion , Church , Events , Culture , History
Innovative Ways of Telling Stories
2008-03-26 17:01:00 Came across an interesting new Penguin project. Dots and loops blogs: We Tell Stories is a new interactive fiction site from Penguin with 6 stories based on Penguin Classics. The first story online is The 21 Steps by Charles Cumming, based on Buchan’s classic thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. It is told through narrative bubbles that pop ... More About: Innovative
Hesperus
2008-03-25 17:01:00 Seeing that National Bookstore is selling Hesperus Press editions of lesser known works of renowned classic authors with a 75% discount, and thus transforming a P339 price tag into P84.50, and fearing that I may never have another chance to get myself books of this quality and quantity, I spent a fourth of my share ...
The Joy of Reading
2008-03-24 17:01:00 My youngest sister Azalea celebrates her fourth birthday today. Reading books, be it a novel, a classic work of fiction, a biography, a political or philosophical treatise, a historical account, or what have you, has always been one of the most enduring joys in my life. Our family?s Holy Week excursion in Mantalongon, Dalaguete gave ...
The Joy of Reading
2008-03-24 17:01:00 My youngest sister Azalea celebrates her fourth birthday today. Reading books, be it a novel, a classic work of fiction, a biography, a political or philosophical treatise, a historical account, or what have you, has always been one of the most enduring joys in my life. Our family?s Holy Week excursion in Mantalongon, Dalaguete gave ...
Pasyon sa Mantalongon (Updated)
2008-03-22 17:01:00 ?We went there just to watch someone being nailed on the cross?? And so asked my younger brother Andre Sandino on our family?s way home from Mantalongon, Dalaguete in Southern Cebu where we spent the Holy Week to witness the Pasyon sa Mantalongon last March 21, 2008. Apparently, local Mantalongon residents, along with people from neighboring towns ...
Future of Socialism
2008-03-21 17:01:00 This is a repost from the Monthly Review Magazine of an address by Prof. Randhir Singh to the journal Itihasbodh at Allahabad on March 8, 2007. Prof. Singh, a distinguished teacher and a former Professor of Political Theory at the University of Delhi, is author of Crisis of Socialism : Notes in Defence of Commitment, Reason ... More About: Politics , World , Analysis , Future
Quote of the Day (7)
2008-03-20 17:01:00 Kishore Mahbubani talks about how Mao?s Cultural Revolution paved the way for China ?s prosperity today in a conversation with the New Perspectives Quarterly Global Viewpoint editor Nathan Gardels. Mahbubani is the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and author of “The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Power ... More About: Politics , Economy , Culture , History
A Prelude to Summer
2008-03-19 01:28:00 I will be gone from Metro Cebu for the Holy Week. Instead of the familiar suburban milieu of the coastal City of Talisay and the expanding urban sprawl that is Cebu City, I will find myself in a distant rural barangay starting today until the weekend. Along with me are my whole family and not a few other people. We will all be present for the live crucifixion of Gilbert Bargayo in the mountains of Mantalongon in the municipality of Dalaguete, Cebu, the details of which are found in the following poster: Of course, this post won’t be complete without a preview of the rite that will be witnessed this Friday. The following video depicts Bargayo’s reenactment of Christ’s crucifixion in another Cebu town a year ago: The summer vacation is almost here and this prelude should set the right mood for the coming occasion. The rest of the week, would be spent on admiring nature’s wonders, observing religious traditions and reading a few new books. Around the Blogosphere I’m not sur... More About: Summer
Manna from Heaven
2008-03-17 17:01:00 I received manna from heaven late last week or to be more accurate, my book did. I was about to end my reading of the eminent Albanian author Ismail Kadare?s The File on H when bird droppings suddenly fell upon the last page of the book. I muttered expletives to myself and cursed the bird ... More About: Personal , Literature , Books , History , Heaven
Jun Lozada Goes to Cebu
2008-03-16 17:01:00 Jun Lozada will be going to our college today here in Cebu to speak on the NBN-ZTE deal. I can’t attend the said forum. Still, for those who are interested, it will held this 3PM at the University of the Philippines Cebu College Conference Hall. In the meantime, let me share Sir Bong Wenceslao explanation of ... More About: News , Politics , Events , Opinion , Scandals
The Perfect Gift
2008-03-15 17:09:00 I always found books to be the perfect gift for any occasion. Books , a National Book Development Board survey finding reveals, are considered to be good gifts by Filipinos. Keeping up with this tradition, I gave my favorite younger sister a book for her birthday yesterday. Alya Simone is now fifteen. I handed her The ... More About: Personal , Family , Reading , Gifts
Jabidah Massacre Recalled
2008-03-14 17:01:00 Recalling the ?Jabidah massacre? that ignited four decades of conflict in Mindanao, a handful of Cebuanos showed support for some 100 young advocates who passed by Cebu in the third day of a peace caravan across the country from Mindanao to Corregidor island next week. The peace advocates intend to unveil a marker and perform a ... More About: News , Politics , Events , History , Philippines
Two Films for Last Potter Book
More articles from this author:2008-03-13 23:54:00 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be made into two movies, announces Warner Brothers, with part one arriving in cinemas in November 2010 and part two following in May 2011. The Guardian newspaper writes, ?Saying goodbye to Harry Potter has been hard - for fans? and even more so the publishers and booksellers for ... More About: Politics , Movies , Church , Jesus , Education 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
