Entries from May 2008 ↓

The Ballad of Ira Hayes is a song written by Peter La Farge in honor of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who served in the US Marines during World War II. You can read more about him at wikipedia. The footages included in this video appear to have been taken from the movie, Flags of Our Fathers which stars Adam Beach, the Ojibwa actor we blogged about a year ago.

I wanted to use, “How The West Gets Information From Us and Deny Us Access to the Information” as the title for this post but it’s very long so let’s make do with the title above.

Anyways, this topic came to mind when I came across a story about Banaue earthworms at the Wall Street Journal. I wanted to read the whole article but it says:

What a bull. So someone from the Wall Street Journal goes to Banaue to do a story on the rice crisis, gets some information from our Banaue kailiyans, and limits online access to his article to those who can pay WSJ’s subscription fee? Isn’t this information piracy? As someone who believes in free access to information, I say it is. And it is happening silently without our knowledge.

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Nag-blog na tayo tungkol sa Palarong Pambansa eh di lubosin na natin. Here’s the top performers from the Cordillera Administrative Region during the recently concluded Palarong Pambansa 2008. Information taken from the horrendously user-unfriendly Palaro site.

Elementary

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Three cheers to Marie Felice Gallaga for breaking a national high jump record. Kasta man nga kailiyan. By the way, her name may actually be Marla Felice Ellaga because this is the name that’s listed at the Palaro website. Marie/Marla, according to some news reports, is from Baguio City.

Cordillera athlete breaks high jump record using improvised equipment
ABS-CBN News

Despite training on improvised equipment, an athlete from the Cordillera region broke a six-year-old high jump record at the annual Palarong Pambansa, ABS-CBN Regional Network News reported Sunday.

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My apologies for the very infrequent posts. I’ve been busy and continue to be busy with some projects I have to do. In the meantime, here are some links which are worth visiting.

* Check out the Blog of the Sagada Igorot. His reaction to an Inquirer article about Sagada’s “takba” mirrored my reaction when I first read the Inquirer story. Methinks the source of the writer, if he did interview a source, was pulling the poor writer’s leg. Anyways, read the Sagada-Igorot’s post here.

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