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Our quote of the day comes from Fr. Rex Reyes, the new head of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines:

“I will definitely strengthen the program on indigenous peoples, not because I am an indigenous person myself, but because the churches can also learn a lot from indigenous peoples’ sense of justice, community and stewardship of creation.”

“As Christians, we have to affirm all that is good in the culture of our indigenous communities. We can affirm, for example, the strong sense of community and culture of sharing of indigenous peoples as our safeguard against the individualist and consumerist values being pushed by capitalist globalization.”

Read the Inquirer story here. And our first post on Padi Rex is here.

Here’s more information on Jaylord Langbayan, the 16 year old kid who is going to participate in a United Nations special session on children. Read more about him in our first post. Now, here’s some info on where he comes from.

Jaylord Langbayan, boy, 16 years old
Jaylord is a senior student at Dipaculao National High School. He was born in Cainta, Rizal, where he spent the first seven years of his life. His parents worked at the nearby ceramics factory, but when the factory closed down, the family relocated to Mucdol, Dipaculao, in the province of Aurora, where his father’s uncle lent them a piece of land to till. His mother now works as a housekeeper and his father as a farmer.

Jaylord and his family had to adapt to a different environment after their relocation. But two years into the move, they became acquainted with the work of World Vision and their lives changed. His mother turned from a plain housewife to an active leader and Jaylord became a child leader in his community. He was elected as the Chairperson of the Luzon Coalition of Children’s Association of the Philippines (LuCCAP) and represents Luzon children in National Coalition of Children’s Association of the Philippines. His group advocates for four priority issues: Child Participation, Child Protection, Environment, Peace and Order. They are also trying to build a child friendly community.

Jaylord wants to be a Social Worker and a responsible writer and journalist.

Source: unicef.org

Here’s something interesting. Seems like our friends from the left are campaigning to have Angelina Jolie visit the Philippines to draw attention to the plight of the country’s internal refugees.

Hah, we must say that the KMP folks know how to do a media coup. Their simple press release completely upstaged Gloria’s carefully planned image building trip in Europe. The KMP/Angelina story was picked up by major news agencies and famous blogs.

And Gloria? Well, her trip is an unreported non-event. (Read it here.) She’s lucky to be in the tidbits section where she properly belongs. Poor her. After all that planning and preening and public self-flagellation to get sympathy (a.k.a. I am a bad politician), it’s only the dutiful Philippine media that’s paying her some attention. Don’t believe me? Type in “Gloria Arroyo” in the news search in Google and see what comes up.

Now, can can you imagine the media attention that Angelina will generate if she actually visits the refugees in Mindanao? Gloria and her ilk will definitely go bonkers. That would be fun to watch. So come on Angie, visit us.

Were you, like us, surprised when Gloria suddenly became a human rights warrior? Don’t know what we’re talking about?

Well here’s the story: Gloria was in Singapore this week to attend the ASEAN summit. During the summit, she suddenly went, “Yo! Myanmar military junta, the Philippines won’t vote for the ASEAN charter if you don’t release Aung San Suu Kyi.”

Dude, she really acted like our high school principal. Or, for those of you who don’t give a damn about our principal, she acted like Dolores Umbridge in that last Harry Potter movie.

Now, because the Myanmar generals don’t like being patronized by a toady Dolores Umbridge-wannabe, they got bat-shit crazy and went, “Shut up you fake President of 7,107 irrelevant islands.” Continue Reading…

Michael Fajatin is a TV reporter of GMA-7, here’s his report on a protest rally held in Mendiola:

Igan, pasado alas otso ng tahimik na magdisperse ang mga rallyisata sa San Sebastian.
Ngunit, matapos ang ilang negosasyon,
itoy matapos na ….
nag disperse sila,
Pagkatapos nito, ah….
Hindi na sila nagaway…
Nagaway na sila sa simula,
Pagkatpos nitoy, nagkaroon sila ng AHHHH….
Pagaaway na sa simula!

Is he drunk? Or is he speaking some kind of language we don’t understand?

Thanks to Tina for setting up our blog. We finally have our own domain. Iyaman, Tina :-)

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Contact me for details when you have the time! I’m going to hire you as my campaign manager for the North when I run for presidential elections. hehehehe!

This calls for a grand canao! Do I hear the gongs from a distance or smell the smoke from the wood fires? Waah! It’s been a long time since I’ve had itag.

This site needs fine tuning. But not bad for a photo finish rush job.

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