Here’s a music video on the lives of vegetable farmers. Because Pagano’s comment (in our first post on vegetable farmers here) is directly related to the subject of this video, we decided to publish his comment here in the main page. Thanks Pagano.
Pagano on the lives of vegetable farmers: The situation for highland vegetable farmers has always been similar with that of gamblers, or maybe just a little worse for the farmers. They sow the seeds and tend to them till they are fit to harvest. (This last sentence over-simplifies the whole gardening process — the endless hours of labor, the never ending expenses, plus the psychological pain that accompanies the gardening endeavour, i.e., pests attack, the weather gets uncooperative, Gloria is still not resigning, etc, etc…)
Here are some interesting links that you might want to read:
► If you were Takit Bersamin, what would you do first and why? Abrenian.com asks its members and readers to give some unsolicited advice to Abra’s Governor-elect. Join them here.
► Do you remember the video of Luke-Abeya Torrevillas which we uploaded here? Apparently said video is now in competition at lonelyplanet.tv. You might want to rate and vote for the video here. Voting ends May 23, so you better hurry up, my friends.
Here are some links just in case you would like to read more election-related news from the Cordillera boondocks.
Fun stuff: You see! All that coin tossing you did as a kid is valuable after all. To decide who between two candidates with the same number of votes would sit in the Bontoc municipal council, our favorite COMELEC officer Mary Umaming tossed a coin and Brian Bellang, who chose heads, won. Story by Desiree Caluza here.
Congratulations to Brian. Our condolence to the one who lost, Benjamin Ngeteg. This practice is, of course, provided by law but we still kinda feel sorry for Benjamin. Maybe our lawmakers can come up with a more equitable way of breaking ties like this. What about equal vote-getters splitting the term? Let’s give them each a chance to sit in the council (or in any other elective position).
Something weird is going on with Blogger/Blogspot because it no longer allows changes in previous posts, thus we can no longer add updates to the provincial results. Because of this, we are putting the most recent results from the Cordilleras here in a common post. These updates are courtesy of the bibaknets-yahoogroup forwarded to us by one of its members.
Note: We will continue to update the results as soon as we get new data. In the meantime, you might want to share your thoughts on the lighter side of Cordillera politics.
UPDATE 9: Technical problems with Blogger/Blogspot prevented us from adding updates these past few days so we posted the final results for Benguet here. Thanks for visiting this blog. We hope you continue to visit us in the future. Meanwhile, you might want to join us in our playful attempt to put words in the mouths of our Cordillera politicians here. In case you are interested in more election-related news from the Cordilleras, we have some links for you here. Lastly, you might want to read our post in honor of our kailiyans who died working for a peaceful election here.
UPDATE 8 (18 May): From Bibak.org: Felicio Bayacsan won as mayor of Buguias while Melchor Diclas won as vice mayor.
UPDATE 7 (17 May): Partial official results from the COMELEC covering 8 of the 13 towns in Benguet. This is as of 4 pm. 16 May. Incumbent Congressman Samuel Dangwa continues to lead with a margin of about 14,000 votes. With five towns still unaccounted for (sayang di natin alam kung anong towns ang mga ito), will his challenger Ronald Cosalan be able to close the gap and maybe even win? Ano kaya ang assessment ng ating favorite iBenguet blogger na si The Nashman?
