Cross-posted at From the Boondocks.
Mapapa-wow ka sa ganda ng kantang ito. I think it typifies the kind of songs we love in the Cordilleras — smooth, kind of quiet (or walang vocal theatricals), and meaningful.
Jun Utleg used to be a member of Binhi, the Baguio band known for that hauntingly beautiful song, “Ang Bata”. I remember hearing “Ang Bata” performed in one of Baguio’s bars, was haunted by it, and went back the following night to buy a copy of the band’s record. I can imagine myself doing that for this song, “Igorota”.
Fellow bloggers: Let’s help promote this song. I-blog na rin ninyo sa inyong blog hehe.
VIDEO CREDIT: Jun Utleg
Wow. Seems like athletes from Baguio are winning — should we say, dominating — the third Philippine Olympic Festival for Central Northern Luzon which is being held in Subic Bay, Olongapo. Here’s a report from the Inquirer on the feats of Baguio athletes. You can read the earlier reports here and here. Go, Baguio.
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This is a really sad story. Stolen from the Northern Philippine Times Blog:
BAGUIO CITY – The police and National Bureau of Investigation are now investigating Baguio General Hospital staff here after one of the latter allegedly forcibly pulled off the head of a baby from her body making it roll on the floor while the mother was delivering birth.
After three miscarriages, 22-year-old Amy Diaz and her 24-year-old husband, Bernabe, a gasoline attendant, were expecting their first-born to be christened Ayesa Bea Mae on Easter Sunday.
Their expectations didn’t materialize as on Black Saturday they had to bury her after the incident in the delivery room of the BGH and Medical Center Wednesday night.
“I saw my baby’s head roll on the floor,” Amy said, adding her husband rushed her to the hospital before midnight after she began to suffer labor pains.
“A certain Edward “forcibly pulled the head of my baby,” she claimed.
She said she saw the head drop to the floor and roll.
Amy said doctors had to operate on her to remove her baby’s headless body. She added it would have been easier to accept if her first-born was dead inside her womb prior to the delivery.
“We were told our child suffered from an abnormality,” she said.
Amy disputed this, saying an ultrasound and an ECG prior to the delivery showed her baby was healthy.
Following this, the couple reported the incident to the police and NBI. “We will have to wait for the results of the investigation,” Bernabe said.
Newsmen tired to get a comment from the hospital’s chief obstetrician-gynecologist, Teresita Agbanlog, but she didn’t want to release a statement on the incident pending results of the NBI probe.
Bernabe said he was told it may take a month to finish the investigation.
Mary Jo Dulawan, Ifugao provincial health officer, meanwhile denied that her son, Edward, a medical intern in the hospital, could have been the one tagged by Amy.
“He could not have been involved,” she said, adding Amy could have mistaken her
son doing the procedure.
She added her son, as an intern in the pediatrics department, is physically present in the delivery room but only takes over the newborn after obstetrician-gynecologists have done their job.
Other BGH personnel didn’t want talk on the matter to the media.
Another article at Nordis.
Found this via the BSU Blog. What is it? It is a two day concert scheduled 25-27 April as a tribute to Overseas Filipino Workers. Cool, eh? Proceeds of the concert will be used for the renovation of the San Jose Parish Church in La-Trinidad.
The concert is being organized by the Baguio Market Network in cooperation with The Benguet State University, The Province of Benguet, The Municipality of La Trinidad, and The San Jose Parish Community.
I mistakenly thought that the Baguio Market Network is a network of vendors/stall renters of the Baguio City market but it turns out that it is a company that “deploys wireless infrastructures and provides IT technology”.
Is it me or is that an uncool name (maybe unfortunate even) for an IT company? Really, the image that comes to mind — to me at least — when you say “Baguio Market” is the crowded (and in some parts smelly) Baguio City market. Hehe.
Anyways, this company has a website here. And it promises to do a live broadcast of the Strawberry Woodstock so that OFWs will be able to watch it.
UPDATE: The schedule has been changed from 25-27 April to 29-31 May. It will be held at the same venue. You can read the list of artists who are performing at the Strawberry Woodstock here.
The Baguio police denies ever having sent the text message below which is supposedly meant to warn the public of kidnapping attempts in the city:
“4ward po e2 ng Baguio City Police Office: positive and2 baguio mga nagki2dnap kids. Take note of d ff plate #’s VMM 507, OPD 434, VXE 351. Pls send 2 all ur family and frends.”
There’s no proof that vehicles with said plate numbers exist according to a policeman. Head over to Sunstar for the details.
By the way, do you think our propensity to use text language explains this infamous beauty pageant answer non-answer of Janina San Miguel. I tink so. Do u tink so 2? Mby she desrvs d title aftr ol? Wat u tink?
* Three killed, 26 hurt in Kalinga bus crash. [GMA News]
* It’s still cold in Baguio and the rest of the highlands. Don’t put away those thick jackets just yet. [Inquirer]
* “You ignored us,” barangay officers tell Panagbenga organizers. [Sunstar]
* Abra Gov. Eustaquio “Kit” Bersamin elated over the filing of two counts of murder against former Gov. Vicente “Vicsyd” Valera for the killing of his brother Abra Rep. Luis Bersamin last December 2006. [GMA]
* Let’s give a shout out to the Anao Farmers Association (AFA), an Ifugao farmer’s group which will be competing in the nationwide Gawad Saka Search 2008. [Sunstar]
*Arcelie Loagan, the OFW murdered in Calgary, wrote an article about her faith in God two years ago. Read it here.
Is Baguio the educational center of the north? Maybe. Lately though, it seems like it’s developing a reputation as the place where Koreans can get a quickie diploma. Last November, for instance, the Koreatimes reported this:
Twenty-three incumbent and former military officers and officer cadets were caught for having used fake university diplomas during their application for officer training, a lawmaker said Friday.
According to Rep, Song Young-sun of the Grand National Party, the Ministry of Defense recently withdrew its appointment of 13 incumbent and two former officers for allegedly fabricating diplomas from A.T. College in Baguio, the Philippines, to submit to the ministry for verification of their academic record.
