Friday, June 16, 2006

IM ON BLOG LEAVE

Swori friends but i have to momentarily be on leave but i'll be back soon! ciao

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Hakuna Matata (not!): Explained

Hakuna Matata

Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase

Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze

It means no worries for the rest of your days

It's our problem-free philosophy

Hakuna Matata!
Hakuna Matata! Hakuna matata!
Hakuna Matata! Hakuna matata!
Hakuna Matata! Hakuna matata!
Hakuna Matata! Hakuna--

It means no worries for the rest of your days

It's our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata!

I say "Hakuna"

I say "Matata"


Hakuna Matata is a favorite phrase of mine from the Disney animation "The Lion King" but the song was also used for my favorite cartoon (yes! am still a child at heart, guess I’ll always be!)"Timon and Pumbaa". Timon and Pumbaa are friends in a non-conventional way, Timon is a smart-ass meerkat who can be selfish and canny at times but always gets his way, while Pumbaa is a big warthog who reluctantly, but gives in anyway, to his friends ideas even if he knows they are going to get in trouble.

The relationship between Timon and Pumbaa is like the social order for us Filipinos. Timon is like the small elite rich of this country who have money, wealth and influence. They are relatively a small creature but for an unexplainable reason he holds power over the large and powerful Pumbaa, the larger portion of our society who follows complacently the whims of the small elite.

Like in our present state of things Timon and Pumbaa are at blame with their situations. Timon for continuing to abuse his sway over Pumbaa, Pumbaa for being to complacent and unwilling to stand up to his principles. But unlike Timon and Pumbaa's relationship wherein they are fine (most of the time) and that no one gets hurt.

In our situation as a nation, the dominance of the elite over the welfare of the masses has pushed us to a point of a social volcano ready to erupt in any second. The poor majority had had enough and had too much of the bad side of the bargain.

Timon and Pumbaa live by the creed "Hakuna Matata" and all I can do is envy them for it. Sigh. How would I feel to live a life that is worry-free? It is impossible I know to live in a Hakuna Matata philosophy here in the Philippines. How could we, right? In a developing country where prices of all basic commodities are constantly on the rise. In this beloved yet seemingly God-forsaken country where we are serve morning, lunch and dinner with bad news and more bad news.

We live in a country where we face a multitude of man-made and natural problems being aggravated by the squabble our politicians perform on our government. The blunders, intrigue, scams, expose, misinformation all these make you want to throw up and leave this rotting system of life.

Here in the Philippines, there are tons of problems we face everyday from pollution to bird flu virus. We worry about everything. We worry of the most simple of things to the most complex of matters.

No! It’s no Hakuna Matata here for you and me!

Friday, March 10, 2006

Succcess


From my original blog entitled:"First Few Time"

We’ve done it. My group and I had been able to pull it off. RM gave an appreciative comment to our podcast entitled “liberal gong”.(Donggggggggg)

The nerve racking time pressured environment have push me and my teammates to do what we have to do.

Team Work works!

Kudos to Chris, Coun. Peter, Ema and Teresa!


Good Job Guys!

Guess What I Can Podcast!

From my original blog entitled:"First Few Time"

I Speak! 2b

From my original blog entitled:"First Few Time"


All I can say so far is WHOA!!!

Learning to pod cast is way more complicated than blogging. Much technical stuff is involved. I’m overwhelmed to say the least.

Half way along the discussion I feel my head oozing, spinning with blood spiting out of it. But hey! Maybe it’s just that I’m no techie that is why I can’t relate to the language our instructor was speaking. There is the use of the software audacity, uploading your podcast to a web site like gcast and also the distribution and monitoring. Men I’m lost so far.

I am just very thankful that our instructors are great. I’ll have to commend the patience and effort our instructor is exerting on us. Kudos to you Sir Angelo Racoma and Sir Abe Olandres.

So will I be able to podcast? Watch out. After being fatten up at Amici Di Don Bosco. We are back at the FNF office for the real deal. As an exercise, we are to actually do a podcast. I’m so excited and apprehensive. Hope my teams mates and I can pull it of.

I Speak! 2

From my original blog entitled:"First Few Time"

Day two of the FNF "Express Yourself" Seminar/ Workshop.

Yesterday I had learned that I can blog. Today, its even better, I'll learn how to Pod cast! Ha! Another tool, another weapon, and great upgrade to my armor. Hahahaha!

I just hope the lectures don’t get too technical.

Well you can sense how excited I am! So I’ll until the end of the seminar. Blog you later.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

I Speak!

From my original blog entitled:"First Few Time"

Today, I am given a renewed chance I thought I had lost after graduating from college. Today I am introduced to a new tool, weapon and armor.

Today I learn to blog!

I maybe quite late in catching on to this trend since it had been around for a long time already. But never did I realize just how much fun and exciting it can be to blog. (Friendster better watch out competition is here!) I had been reading other people’s blog every now and then. I can just stare in awe on with blogs other people create and the magnificent skins and backgrounds their blogs have. They seem to be more life like, more alive than I am.

I said I’ll never be able to produce anything like that! What can I do? Blogging is not for me.

Well, I guess I was wrong. Thanks to a seminar/workshop I stumble upon on-line, things opened up for me. Through the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s “Express yourself” Seminar Workshop, I realize blogging maybe just what I need. Imagine no less than Mr. Manuel Quezon III gave us an informative lecture on blogging.

I am just a simple guy, but having read and watched that man speak and most of the time agreeing or getting provoke to think by his analysis and thoughts, it’s pretty awesome. Also being expertly guided by Sir Abe through the process of creation, setup and writing a blog boost my confidence that I can indeed blog. (and hopefully be good at it)

Reminiscing my high school and college days, I remember being very opinionated and vocal about these opinions. The academic environment had created an atmosphere of freedom that I speak on things the way I see them without fear. Sadly, after leaving the university and being hired to work for a local government executive I realize one terrible truth. In the real world you have to turn blind or deaf or mute as the occasion calls for if you want to stay on your job.

Realizing this I quit. I cannot live a life being gagged.

Now, I realize there is a way to break away from the oppressive reality we live in. Blog.

Being equipped with the basic know-how on blogging setup, and basic journalistic ideas I know I am again revived to my freedom. I know that I too can be alive more alive if possible.

Today is the start, I blog to live and live to blog.