August 31st, 2007 — Outside Cordi
Michael being laid to rest next to his younger brother, Vincent. Off camera, a Marine Officer reads a summation of Michael’s commendation and awards him the Purple Heart.
At St Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Poway, California.
Marine Honor Guards perform a gun salute in honor of a comrade.
August 29th, 2007 — Activism, Government, Ifugao, Mt. Province
Are you hungry? According to Gloria, if you are in the Cordilleras (except Benguet) then you are. So she came up with this Accelerated Hunger Mitigating Program (AHMP) to feed those hungry people from the boondocks. Now they are giving smelly NFA rice to students in school. But truth be told, those rice are now being used as “megmeg” or chicken feed by some families we know.
Anyway the “feed the hungry” program of Gloria, the Patroness of Hungry People, does not seem to be sitting well with Cordillera officials. [Or maybe it's not the program itself that is upsetting them but the fact that the Cordilleras is being branded as a hungry region.] Here’s what some of our officials said according to Sunstar Baguio:
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August 29th, 2007 — Apayao, Kalinga
“This means that Kaelco (Kalinga-Apayao Electric Cooperative) lost 249,350.55 kilowatt/hour (kwh) to pilferers or roughly P1.9 million. The monthly subsidy should have been used to maintain power lines and electrify off-grid barangays.” — Kaelco Member Service Division Chief Cliford Alunday
Read the story at Sunstar Baguio.
August 28th, 2007 — Uncategorized
So as we mentioned here, we will continue talking about key words that brought some visitors to this blog. This time however, instead of just two-three words, we have complete questions typed in by search engine users. We hope to answer these questions particularly those which we haven’t touched on in previous posts. Except for capitalizing the first letters and putting question marks at the end, we’re leaving the questions unedited.
1. “What does iddem dem malida mean?” Honestly, we also don’t know. We speculated here that maybe it is like “ay ay salidummay” which does not have a translation. Hopefully our Tingguian readers can help us if the words do have a meaning and can be translated to other languages. For those who missed our post about this, Iddemdem Malida is a Tingguian victory song. You can read the post and a video of the UP chorale group singing the song here.
August 27th, 2007 — Activism, Baguio
The tragedy occurs when limited natural resources get depleted because individuals use them for their private interests and without regard for the common good. More about “tragedy of the commons” here.
The above image shows the situation of the Busol watershed. According to Art Tibaldo who sent us the photo, “If you are to count the pine and other trees in the map, I’m quite certain that their number is not more than the houses in Aurora Hill, Bayan Park, Marcoville and Trancoville combined.”
August 26th, 2007 — Baguio, Education
Congratulations to the following examinees from Baguio schools who made it to the top ten:
Top 6: Cecilia Arceo Dacanay, Baguio Central University (BCU), 86.60
Top 9: Divina Zuerte Pasetes Diomampo, Pines City College (PCEC), 86.00
Congratulations too to St. Louis University for having a 99% passing rate (299 out of 302) which ties it for first place — among schools that have 100 and more examinees — with the Trinity University of Asia (Q.C.) and St. Paul University (Iloilo).
August 26th, 2007 — Art/Entertainment, Igorot Achievers, Sports
If you are looking for something to inspire you, this story of Noel Sumingwa dramatized in GMA-7’s Magpakailanman might be the answer. Noel is a gay Igorot karatista who ruled as the regional shotokan-karate champion from 1994-1998.
PART 1: Noel wins a gay beauty title and gets beaten by his dad.
PART 2: Noel tries out for his school’s martial arts team. He makes the team and gets to be his school’s “pambato”.
August 26th, 2007 — Uncategorized
We told you earlier that we will be coming up with some tidbits about this blog. Here’s a start. In this post we will share with you the interesting keywords typed in search engines (Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc) which led some visitors to this blog. Here it goes:
1. “Where to find Mompo wine.” Trublue’s comment about sipping Mompo wine made us the number one site to go to for those typing said keywords in Google. Trublue’s comment is here.
August 25th, 2007 — Outside Cordi
From the North County Times: On Friday, hundreds of family members and friends gathered at Poway’s St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church to celebrate the life and mourn the passing of [Sgt. Michael] Tayaotao.
The son of Filipino immigrants was remembered for his positive outlook, hearty laugh and ready smile.
August 25th, 2007 — Culture and Tradition, Education, Outside Cordi
Still want to know more about our kailiyans in Canada? We don’t have more information about them but we do have this essay by Mildred Dacog on how our colonial history shaped our identity as a people.
How exactly is that connected to the topic? Well, good friends, Mildred was a graduate student at the University of Alberta [which is in Canada] at the time she wrote this essay. We’re also presuming that she is still based in Canada.
