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Category Archives: Baguio
Igorot Achiever: Kiko Calado, Journalist of the Year (Radio)
Our kailiyan Francis “Kiko” Calado of Baguio and Sablan, Benguet was named recently as the Broadcast Journalist of the Year (for Radio) by the Rotary Club of Manila. Kiko is with the DZRH ratio station in Manila.
The award was given to our kailiyan “for his reporting style which is a breath of fresh air in the often frenzied world of radio news broadcasting since his coverage of news and current affairs is driven by facts, not controversy and which have remained true to the principles of responsible journalism”. [Source: Rotary]
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Chi Balmaceda Gutierrez on the Uglification of Baguio
Chi Balmaceda Gutierrez gives us some background on the “uglification” of Baguio. Chi has a blog here and a photo site here. Thanks Chi for sharing your thoughts on this issue.
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Chi Balmaceda Gutierrez:
When Steve Hamada coined the word ‘uglification’ for the Skylandnews — (which was popularized later by his cousin Jack Cariño, Skylandnews publisher, for the 2007 elections) — the term didn’t at all pertain to the congestion of Baguio per se.
What was being alluded to, first and foremost, was the proliferation of kitsch (objects/realities/ manifestations borne out of taste worse than “baduy.” Bad-uy, take note of the etymology. Ha-ha).
Precisely, both of them meant it as “the over-commercialization of every single square meter of land in the city.” (Go figure the implications, greed, even corruption…).
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Gloria in Baguio
Pick the best caption:
1) Dudette, what kind of get up is that?
2) And a little child shall lead them. (Isaiah 11:6)
3) Pare, kaya pala hindi ma-impeach impeach si Gloria dahil meron siyang anting-anting.
4) Where’s Morris? Doesn’t he need a walk?
Or suggest a better caption.
Anonymous and The Nashman on the Uglification of Baguio
An anonymous reader comments on the uglification of Baguio. Again, we do not necessarily agree with the comments but his/her ideas are worth mulling over.
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Anonymous:
Here’s an honest thought.
I hate how Baguio is growing multi cultural nowadays. Just look on how the real Baguio people are being disregarded in favor of the outsiders. Yes multiculturalism is an asset but we must be careful on really being multi-cultural. The pre-war Baguio was a true multicultual society…The Japanese, Cantonese, and Ilocano Immigrants along with the native Ibalois and American colonists created and contributed to the Baguio culture that came about which is now being disregarded by the new immigrants and the city government, whom mostly are immigrants to the city and fake “Baguio people”.
I worry about BLIST. I’m scared that what happened to Baguio would happen to these areas. Baguio once had farmlands but because the local government was so permissive of squatting and “development”, the farmlands are gone. Di malayong mangayari ito sa Benguet, especially La Trinidad.
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