con't... (message board 51)

Name:   Cesar Torres
Email:   Cesar1185@aol.com
Date:   26 Agusto 2007

Para Kan Dr. Lolito Amparado:

When I read the news of this high achiever, I was tempted to write away: "Kaupay pag dayaw ha iya, maupay nga susgaranan han mga Samarnon."

Pero kay makaarawod nga katatapos pala ig post ni Ray an akon Message hionong han Linganay ha Balangiga, adi na liwat masunod. Baga hin KSP na ako hadto.

Anyway, kon may kapas la unta kami ha Gugma Han Samar Cyberspace Movement, or mga poderoso kami nga congressmen or governor, angay gad unta tagan hin regalo ngan pagpahinungod kan Dr. Lolito Amparado, Baraan nga Susgaranan han mga Samarnon. Pero kay kablasanon man kami, diri man kami mga kawatan. Sanglit tubtob na la kami hin verbiage pag pakita han amon pagdayaw kan Dr. Amaparado.

Unta magkita kita one of this days. Pa-upud kita kan Ray Gaspay. Utang kita hin tuba ngan pagkilaw hin buris o tinga hin sarad ngan bilanghoy o camote or saging nga sab-a.. Estorya gadla hi-onong han kabubwason han Samar ngan Pilipinas, an aton mga hingyap ngan inop.

Ray, seguro puede na ini. Diri na makaarawod ig post.

Nag fiesta dida ngay-an kan San Bartolome? Patron han mga kablas nga parupangisda? Kumusta na an Maqueda Bay? Bumalik ba an ka hura han kadagatan sugad hadton bata pa kami? Ha San Francisco tapos na an fiesta. Hira Manoy Joseph Margate ngan iya mga anak an Hermano. Nakadi an makarit nga hi Lucien Letaba upod ni Cielo Tibe Aguirre Northington. Pagsabot han mga Katbaloganon ngan mga Samarnon nga nakadi hi Lucien, rebok an hall nga guin fifiestahan Puro picture picture nala. Centro hi Lucien Letaba ngan Cielo.

I have requested Lucien to translate his mamingaw ngan makatatangis nga "Aanhon Pa" into Pilpino ngan English para unta hi-mo-on nga trademark song han mga Environmentalist ha Samar ngan Pilipinas ngan Kalibutan. Mayada kamo mga kilala nga puede umaro han kwarta han mga kablas nga Samarnon ngan Pilipino nga guin titipigan hini nga mga Honorable nga Congressmen ngan Governadores para pahalipay kan Lucien Letaba ngan Dr. Amparado?

Salamat Harangdon nga Ray Gaspay han imo sakrifisyo hini nga website.

Name:    Leo A. Agosto
Address:    San Bartolomew St., Salug, Catbalogan, Samar
Email:     leo_agosto2002@yahoo.com
Date:   25 august 2007

May ada ako guti ay nga comment, unta may ada guihapon bisan guti-ay nga side part an Samar State Polytechnic College or Samar School of Arts and hadto at yana Samar State University na. I want news coming from my school. Happy me to khow this portion at umaasinso na an Samar saludo ako ha iyo nga tanan nga mga nangunguna han pag asenso han Samar. At unta may portion din para hadto nga nagbibiling han iya mga classmate at mga kabutuan. Damo nga salamat ha ngatanan. Mabuhay Samarinyo.

Name:   Paul Jason D. Duran
Address:   San Fernando Street, Brgy. Palaypay, Basey, Samar
Email:    jazzonpaul123@yahoo.com
Date:   August 25, 2007

Kumusta na? mga taga Brgy. Palaypay, Basey, Samar labi na kanda Mama Bebe ngan Tatay Osip!Tay, hinay-hinay gadla it imo trabaho!

Ma! aadi na ako yana ha Dubai gikan ako ha Qatar kay tapos na an am project didto. Maluoy an Gino-o maupay man an amon biyahe. Kumusta na an akon mga kabugtuan!? kanda Besa, Blessie, Benday ngan han malabad nga hi Babylyn.

Name:    Hermelinda Hagnaya
Address:    Rua Bom Successo 19 Parque Ipe, Feira de Santana, Bahia 44100-000, Brazil
Email:   newavenglish@hotmail.com
Date:   August 24, 2007

Dearest family and kababayan,

Hello! Taclobanon and Samarnon, I missed you a lot. What's going on now people in our country. And I would like to thanks to somebody who create this site. You know people, it's very interesting you can connect from all over the world. For those who can read this message of mine that near in my home, please tell this to my family. I love you family. My address in the Philippines is "Taguiktik Burayan, San Jose, Tacloban City (Leyte) and my parent's names are Narciso and Juanita Hagnaya and to my sisters brother and thier kids.

Name:   Girlie Grimaldi
Address:   New York City, New York, USA
Email:
Date:   24 August 2007

Congratulations to Dr. Lolito Amparado of Samar State University's (SSU) College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences in Catbalogan City for winning the 2007 President Ramon Magsaysay National Award (Outstanding Filipino Worker - Wage Employed Category.)

He certainly is Catbalogan City's and Samar's pride - someone worth emulating by our youth. Good job, Dr. Amparado!

Name:    Antonio Morales
Address:   Catbalogan, Samar
Email:
Date:   August 24, 2007

Congratulations Mr. Amparado for winning the national award! [read news] In essence, the award given to Mr. Amparado is a testament that vocational-technical education has its place in the world. There is a common misconception in the Philippines that professional education is the only way to succeed in life. Everyone shuns the voc-tech route after high school. With that, the country lacks the backbone to support industrial development. In other countries, blue collar workers are well compensated. An electrician, a cook, a carpenter, a plumber, a mason, a boiler repair technician, and the like are well-respected and placed on a pedestal because of their technical know how. Great economies depend on the expertise of these fellows.

TESDA's thrust is to elevate the standard as well as the variety of voc-tech education programs in the country. Too bad that the old polytechnic or agricultural or industrial colleges are now being converted into state universities that are truly not universities in the truest sense but merely "mock" universities that forgot their original purpose which is to promote and offer job-creating voc-tech education. It is alarmingly true that there is an inverse relationship between the number of universities in the Philippines and the quality of education.

May Mr. Amparado's winning encourage more people to be invested in voc-tech education. Instead of allowing 2/3 of college population to enroll in nursing, majority of whom enrolled in cash-hungry incompetent nursing schools, let the government encourage people to go voc-tech where the graduates can not simply be readily employable but also become job creators.

Name:   Jonathan Santiago
Address:   Ubanon, Catbalogan, Samar 6700
Email:    jonathan@yahoo.com
Date:   08/23/2007

To Mr. Leo Ramirez:

You admitted that the payatak system is not productive and not economically wise, so probably that is the reason that he (DA R8 Director) will give effort to modernize rice production. When he said modernize, it does not mean that immediately it will happen.

Naturally in the process of modernizing the production system problems will be encountered and the proposed solution/action will be renewed. Don’t be so pessimistic Mr. Leo. Effort is being made to improve production… let us not pin ourselves to what the past could offer… we need to improve from what we have now…

If we will continue to live with what we know…what a boring life it would be… THINK POSITIVELY MR. RAMIREZ… Instead suggest a solution… be a productive citizen.

Name:    Hermelinda Abode Hagnaya
Address:    Taguiktik, Burayan, San Jose, Tacloban City, Leyte
Email:    newavenglish@hotmail.com
Date:   August 23, 2007

Ola! waraynon. I would like to ask favor from you people of Tacloban to give my e-mail address to my family. Parent's name's are Narciso Hagnaya and Juanita. Our tel. is 3235550-3236773. If somebody has a good heart to call to my family, thank you very much. I missed you all people in the Phil. I'm very far in Brazil that's why I need your help. I love you all wonderful people who create this site. Thanks a lot...

Name:   Cesar Torres
Email:    Cesar1185@aol.com
Date:   23 August 2007

On Mr. Samuel Abenes' "Batingaw ng Balangiga", please click on the link below:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/18/MNG4H2EBNT1.DTL

In Northern California, the Samarnons have not been deeply involved in this project to recover the Bells of Balangiga. Well, Lily Ann Perez, the artist from Catbalogan, wanted to visit the place where they are being kep right now.

When Consul General Delia Menez Rosal was still in San Francisco, she initiated a Balangiga Bells Task Force. I was supposed to be the Secretary General. Oh well, she is no longer in San Francisco.

A Pangasinense, grandson of the famous Carlos Bulosan, Sonny Sampayan who is in New York, was in touch with some Americans in the White House and with Bishop Medroso of Borongan. In fact, Ms. Yolanda Stern, a Zamboanguena who was crowned as a Princess by the Sultan of Sulu in Manila, apparently flew furtively to Borongan to discuss the Bells with Bishop Medroso. Both Mr. Sampayan and Ms. Stern are members of the Republican Party. And they wanted the Catholic Church to take the lead in this enterprise, not the Trapos.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the mysterious Atty. Rodel Rodis, from Pangasinan, and a poilitician here, has taken up the cause of the Bells. In this article about the Bells published in the San Francisco Chronicle, I did not stand up when the congregation was singing. I was smoldering with anger. The people who sat on the bench by the altar, and who spoke, were not Samarnons. Unless we count then Consul General Delia Menez Rosal as Samarnon because she had roots in Calbayog. All the speakers could not even pronounce Borongan and Balangiga correctly. That is the reason I was fuming. I suppose God was amused, so the photographer took my picture and that of Osserman Caceres who was then President of the Leyte Association. And it was plastered on the front of the No. 2 periodical in California, the San Francisco Chronicle.

Well, if non-Samarnons have taken up the cause of Balangiga from the uray nga mga Samarnons, perhaps we are to blame ourselves. However, in Northern California, there are few from Balangiga. They are concentrated in the Southern-Los Angeles Area. And since like most of us we are so busy trying to survive with dignity in this land of milk and honey and the WASPs and afraid that we will not go to heaven, hence our penchant to dance the curacha in those innumerable Samarnon fiestas, while observing the 9-day novena in our "Klasikal Samarnon Binisaya" (because nobody has the brains and the time to translate our fiesta novenas to English), so the issue of the Balangiga Bells is practically a non-issue among Samarnons here. But most of us are familiar with the details of the Balangiga Incident. And with the Battle of Catubig which Mr. Quintin Lambino Doroquez has presented to the World Wide Web.

Anyway, we are hoping that Samarnons -- like Congressman Doloy Coquilla, Governor Raul Daza, Governor Evardone, Justice Eddie Nachura, and famous environmentalist and icon of the NGO circuit in Samar, Charo Nabong Cabardo, can take on this cause for the sake of Samar and the Filipino people. Salamat.

Name:   Lito
Address:   Samar
Email:   litoferreras@hotmail.com
Date:   August 22, 2007

DANGERS OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS CITED. 08/18/07 PHIL. STAR

There is strong link between a healthy ecosystem, proper land use, livelihood and food security.

This is the opinion of Antonio M. Claparols, president of the Ecological Society of the Philippines (ESP), who pointed out that if the ecosystem is not healthy, there will be biodiversity loss and that if people do not use land according to the dictates of nature, there will be loss of livelihood, chronic concentrated poverty, the spectre of jobless growth and insufficient food for all.

Claparols stressed that life support system must b judiciously preserved and used for the benefit of all. "Environment and poverty are interlink with each other, as experienced by famine infested areas in Africa. There is desertification, loss of biodiversity and lack of food for inhabitants", he added. In a statement, the PSE official said. "We connot wait for this thing to happen in the Philippines, as there is insufficient areas not being serviced by irrigation and many food producing areas are hurt by lack of rainfall or too much of it".

"The country's once fertile lands are now slowly being replaced by malls and building and settlement houses giving rise to insufficient food supply. The common practice of importing foodstuff not only drains the local foreign exchange reserve, it also deprives our countrymen of proper livelihood due to government neglect and the lack or insufficient rainfall". The government should do away with cosmetic remedies to amply supply basic food and other services needed particularly in far flung communities. Years of neglect have made people in the countryside troop to the cities only to live in blight under in human conditions". Claparols explained that the Philippines is supposed to be able to grow enough food to feed its people. However, the influx of cemented structures, golf courses, shopping malls and subdivisions has created a negative impact on the environment, so much so that areas previously planted to rice are no longer there, he noted.

It akon la konta hangyu mamat-an ta konta ini. Salamat ngan maupay nga adlaw igkasi ko waray.

Name:    Parakawil
Email:    lexarte70@yahoo.com
Date:   21 August

Nagpapasalamat ako hine nga site nga bisan kon harayo ako nak partesipar liwat ak.

An akon gadla concern bahin hine nga dumpsite ha Brgy. Camada didto ha Borongan. Kay iton ira siring nga maraot kuno iton location ngan nakaksakit na kuno hit mga tawo dara hit baho. Actually kon pag aadman hin tuhay iton lokasyon hiton dumpsite inin mas maupay kontra hin iba nga lugar, una: diri na kinahanglan maghimo hin bago nga kalsada o magsemento hin daan nga kalsada kay mayda na maupay nag access rod kay yada mismo hit along national road, ikaduha, kon pag aadman iton topography hiton dumpsite, haros 90 percent hiton nga lugar in halarom, pareho hin natural nga luho o crater nga nagpaupay hit iya klase hit adaptation hit volume of garbage kay halarom, ika tulo: iton iya location in yada hit bunga hin bukid ngan waray natural bodies of water ha ilarom nga iya madidistroso in case hiton seepage hiton waste. Ika upat; kon ine hiya mapuno na puede na hiya magin landfill nga diri na kinahanglan in damo nga volume hin tuna kay ha igbaw la an topping.

Ha bahin naman hine nga mga nagkakasakit, pag abat ko diri ine mga residente hiton mismo sentro hit Brgy. Camada nga mga tawo kundi ine nga mga settlers nga yada na mismo hit dumpsite uukoy kay asya man it ira pakabuhi an pag basura. So karuyag signgon diri natural cause an basura kundi an ira pag ukoy ha askob han basurahan o ha ligid an direct nga cause.

Antes gin himo iton nga dumpsite gin studyohan iton han anay municipal mayor Engr. Melcho Arago. Mmaram adto han sinisirng nga site evaluation and analysis. Lugod it problema hine yana nga existing nga dumpsite iton iya maintenance ngan an proper design to properly dispose and evenly distribute solid waste conforming to the contour of the dumpsite. Pero pag kinita ko, concentrated la hin usa nga spot iton dumping salit dara kadamo na hiton garbage nga nag fill up naabot na ngadi hiton peak o highest point hiton terrain. Bisan unan on pag dinuso hit nga bulldozer diri na maabante kay iton natural surface limitado la ha pira ka metro tikang ka may kalsada dara kay halarom man hiya nga klase.

It akon opinyon o obersbasyon para ma maintain ine hin maupay mentras DAKO pa it lugar kon matutuhay la pag dump ini pag himo hin ramp o access road nga makaabot ngadto almost ha center. O di ngani pag himo hin electrical conveyor nga magdadra hit garbage ngan ighuhuwad ha butnga o kun diin man nga spot iton lowest point pa. Para kon an usa nga side mapuno na, immediately fill up para diri na makgawas pa ha dumpsite an basura. Mas gutiay ada nga badyet it kaulangan hine kontra hin paghimo hin bag o. Mas tuhay ngan mas safe pa. Kay kon ha Balacdas damo iton mga natural bodies of water nga puede ma contaminate hiton waste seepage. Ngan kon an basura ikinaaawod o iniiwasan tama na an usa nga lugar na ma exploit kontra kada administrasyon in maghihimo iya proposal para dumpsite hin iba iba nga lugar ha Borongan. Salamat.

Name:    Niño Ver Donaire Hermosa
Address:    Australia
Email:
Date:    20-August-2007

Hello to all Samarnon! Musta na kayong lahat. Just wanna say hello to all ma relatives lalo na sa Samar at ibang places sa pinas. Advance happy fiesta Catbaloganon. Enjoy...thanks kuya Ray.

Name:    Leo Ramirez
Address:   Narra St, Barangay 10, Patag Dist., Catbalogan City
Email:    rcram9@hotmail.com
Date:   19 August 2007

I was amazed with the reaction of DA Regional Executive Director Leo Caneda (Inquirer 18/08/07) about rice farming systems in Las Navas and Catubig, Samar. To quote "he was astonished that farmers are still using the payatak system of rice farming when it is already history in Leyte.”

I think he should not stay longer in his job. As a Regional Director he should have a grasp in the agricultural production systems of our marginal farmers in Samar. Payatak system has been used by farmers for so years because that's the most economic way to do it, though not considered the productive way of obtaining max yield.

No wonder our delivery of services and agricultural technology intervention to our farmers is compromised and incompetently addressed, because of lack of understanding of how traditional systems worked and how solutions could be arrived at the farm level. He should understand why farmers do what they do.

He revealed a project to upgrade or enhance a research facility in Catubig, to promote the use of high yielding certified seeds etc which may require higher inputs to obtain optimum yield. Well and good!! But please consider, the holistic situation of the farming enterprise in that area whether farmers will be capable of adapting these so called high tech intervention. I am encouraging him to understand further, the local farming system before such intervention is introduced.

There were countless aggie project before funded by International financial Institutions but they were only good while there was money to support the project, and sustainability of adaption wasn't achieved because they were alien to the local farming systems and eventually farmers went back to their traditional way. WE have to understand priority farming problem first, and gather sufficient data to learn more about the situation and let's involve the farmers in drafting out a solution acceptable to them. And please Mr. Regional Director you should be visiting farms and interacting with farmers in Samar more often, not just in Leyte area or ribbon cutting of new research buildings or attending meetings in your air conditioned offices.

Name:   Waraynon ha Langyaw nga Labnasan
Address:   Ajman, UAE
Email:    lhessymae@hotmail.com
Date:   August 19, 2007

Panawagan la ini hiton mga bag-o nga mga opisyal hiton segundo distrito han Samar! Pagmata kamo ngan paninanu-a iton kalsada tikang ha Calbiga tikada ha Catbalogan! Nabibido ako nga malima na katuig an nakalabay tikang matapos an Santa Rita -Calbiga part han National Highway, waray pa visible nga improvement hiton tikang ha Calbiga tikadto ha Catbalogan.

More shocking to witness nga an mga ayad pa nga portion hini nga mga kalsada in ginguguba, pinanbubuho para kuno maliwanan. "Sungkaan" is not enough to describe this road, but more as "bufallo mudbath" I know that these roads are purposely constructed substandard to get more money from the government. And it simply means; more budget, more kickback! Cong. Anne Tan, try to convince the youth that you deserve that position and not just another member of Silent Committee in the House of Representative! Wake Up TraPos and stop squabbling over tax payers money!

Name:   Citizen W. Aray
Address:   Samar
Email:
Date:   August 18, 2007

Just to enlighten our misunderstanding on the sharing of wealth and fortune that are abundantly found in Samar landscape in recent times, as made known by our leaders.

Our leaders don't have to necessarily handout victuals and libitions to everyone, but they must provide various opportunity for job creations, business venture capital, viable infrastructures, and other incentives to wealth creation. Leaders must provide level playing fields to every economic player and prevent the age-old practice of jealousy and envy towards one another that saboutage honest economic pursuits.

Under pure business competition, i.e.; absence of crony capitalism, bribery and other forms of economic evils, wealth will naturally pour into every household since the business environment's honest and true. Every player's given every opportunity to participate in a fair and equitable business enterprise where success's based on individual efforts free from outside interferences or disincentives.

It's along these lines where we find the spirit of sharing the economic pie that comes out of individual efforts under the guidance and advice of our leaders.

Name:    Romeo Kempis Dela Paz
Address:   Florida, U.S.A.
Email:   dhs68romeod@yahoo.com
Date:   August 17, 2007

To Dulag High School (Leyte) Batch'68:

In behalf of our graduating class and Nenie Stipes, our web page moderator, I wish to invite you to go to our egroup with yahoo asia for info/contact. I look forward to hear from you, to see a great turn-out in our 40th year reunion in 2008. May I hear from the other DHS Class '68 officers/Sections coordinators on the possibility of activating/organizing a Steering Committee so we may be able to better organize for this coming milestone for DHS Batch 1968!

Name:   Mary Rose Masinopa
Address:   Daguman Street, Brgy. Obrero, Calbayog City
Email:   sweetsirene_448@yahoo.com
Date:  August 17, 2007

Hello po sa inyong lahat! Maupay na adlaw! Unta sa mga nagbabasa sini mga message magin maupay unta an adlaw niyo ngan sin matawahon kam. Kay parehas sa akon, biskan damo problema sa akon kinabuhi yana samtang maupay la gihap ig buhi kay adi akon pamilya, kasangkayan, ngasin an Ginoo.

Name:   Brenda Permites Balmes
Address:    Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Email:   brenda_jeddah@hotmail.com
Date:   14 august

Kumusta mga taga Samar. Labi an mga taga Taft, Eastern Samar.

Name:   Samuel Abenes
Address:   338 Banaba St., Comembo, Makati City
Email:   leumas_ksa2006@yahoo.com
Date:   Aug. 12 2007

Next month Sept. 28 will be commemoration of the Balangiga Incident that I compose a poem in vernacular relevant to that subject. Many thanks and more power to your publication.

Here is My Poem;

"BATINGAW NG BALANGIGA"

I
Sa pagdaan ng mga dahon ng kasaysayan
Mayroon naganap sa isang kabayanan
Makalipas na panahon wala pang kalayaan
Ang bansa natin sakop pa noon ni "Uncle Sam"

II
Ang liblib na lugar doon sa isla ng Samar
Maliit na bayan tawag nilay BALANGIGA
Dito nagbuwis buhay maraming tagaroon
Na ngayon nalimot na abang kagitingan.

III
Balik tanaw natin, insidenting nangyari
Kung paano pinaslang lahat ng kalalakihan
Maging mga batang paslit di pinatawad
Basta humawak ng armas, Buhay tinodas.

IV
Dipa tinantanan ng namumunong Amerikano
Ang utos niyay sunugin lahat mga kabahayan
Naglagablab na apoy tumupok sa lahat
Bawat madaan may tao sa kubo o wala man.

V
At sumunog sa buong bayan ng Balangiga
Mga bahay ng mamamayan walang natira
Pati ang kabuhayan tanim, palay sinunog
Sa pangyayaring ito maraming nasalanta.

VI
Ang pinakamatindit pinakamasaklap pa
Tuloy nadamay ang maliit na simbahan
Dahil ang kasagraduhan ay nalapastangan
Doon sa kampanaryo poot nilay ibinuhos.

VII
Tinanggal na mga kampana ninakaw ng tuluyan
At nawala sa parokya dinala sa Wyoming
Ang isa ay napadpad doon sa South Korea
"Wala na ang ugong, wala na ang Batingaw".....

Name:   Marivic Agoyaoy
Address:  313 Mangan-vaca, Subic, Zambales, Philippines
Email:   ynna_rush07@yahoo.com
Date:   August 3, 2007

I was looking for all my mother's family, I’m looking for my lolo and lola whose names are Marcelino and Amelia Ranedo and also all my mother's brothers and sisters because she's only 16 when she left her place. I don't know where are they but I was hoping that somebody help me to find them and also I don't know if my grandparents are still alive

Here's my mother's siblings: Matea, Moises, Lina, Anastacio and I don't know the others.

Hope you will help me. Thank you very much in advance!!!!

Name:   BethBurak
Address:   Diamond Bar, California 91765-2177, USA
Email:   info@cayetanoshome.com
Date:   08/02/07

Manong Cesar: Salamat han imo link to Mr. Joey Velasco's incredibly sad piece. Mr. Velasco is truly remarkable for using his work as a medium to wake people up to the suffering of our children, suffering that we constantly see and choose to ignore. What kind of society do we have?

I sobbed kay kasakit ha dughan pagkinitaon. Mr. Velasco's questions to himself became my questions to myself. The video had a tremendous impact on my well-being. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzYgSJCPEtY

[Here are some very interesting videos on YouTube to watch:
Cebu inmates dance "Thriller" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o&mode=related&search=
Our Maid Imelda - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuiVglF7Dww   - Editor ]

Name:   Nimfa Quirante
Address:   PIA, Capitol Site, Catbalogan City 6700, Samar
Email:   pia_pic@yahoo.com
Date:   Aug.2

Gina Suello, I read with interest about your digifilm called Salog and Inidoro. Maupay! When I read good pieces like this. I immediately want to rush to that person and shake her hand for congratulations. I sure would want to meet you in person. Also please share us complimentary copies of your paper. We will appreciate that. Regards to Ike of Calbayog Star!!!!!!!!

Name:   Cesar Torres
Email:   Cesar1185@aol.com
Date:  1 August 2007

The 12 Children of Hapag, Short film (19 minutes) by Joey Velasco. Click on the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzYgSJCPEtY

Name:   Para Trabaho
Address:   Awang Community Center, Barangay Kagit-itan, Calbayog City
Email:
date:   July 30, 2007

To Prefoser W. Aray., actually kami nga kablasanan dire kami nagngangaro han ira karicohan, an kinahanglan namon trabaho, ngan health benefit para san amon familya. Dire nira kinahanglan nga ighatag sa amon an ira mga kuwarta o kon ano pa man, kundi kinahanglan la magtindog hire hin negosyo para makagtrabaho kami nga mga pobre, dire kami nanlilimos, puede kami magtrabaho ngan tutdoan kami o tagan kami training ngan certifico para san amon trabaho nga kinahanglan., ngan tagan kami hin kaangayan nga suweldo og health benifit. Para naman mapaaram namon an amon mga anak. Dire himuon nga object of pity ngan pagtamay kay hobya kuno.

Remember dinhe ha Pilipinas kon pobre ka dire ka makaon kon dire ka magtrabaho. Dire sugad san akon bati sa Amerika og Europa nga may Social benifits. Health Care, Housing, ngan Food stamps. Waray siton sa Pilipinas. Pero an amon la kinahanglan magtindog ha kada probinsiya hin negosyo nga environmentaly sound, ngan dire exploitative kon sa English pa. Para dire maruba an tourist attraction nga puede bumulig pa san iba nga trabahador nga pobere.

Bisan ako pobre nakag aram ako gutiay. Hinumduma niyo nga kami nagkikita la, kon waray na gud solosyon, remember we waited for thre hundred years before we explode. Now is hoping nga magmata na unta an mga may responsibilidad pag pakaupay san aton bungto kay nagkikita kami. Dire ngani niyo upayon magin hino kaman manunukot kami ha urhe nga adlaw. The law must prevail.

Name:   Rastin Bahrami
Address:   Barbahr, Ira, Shiraz, Fars 74318, Iran
Email:   rastin_bahrami@yahoo.com
Date:   July 28, 2007

Hi to all Samarian....I’m so happy to contact with site...its very good site...I loss one of my friends that lived in Catbalogan Samar...his name is BRYAN ZOSA LANGBAYAN...he lived in ECLIPSE RETRO CLUB DEL ROSARIO ST. in Catbalogan Samar....if any one known him or can contact with him...please tell him im waiting for contact with him…thanks a lot…

Name:   Taga Calbayog
Address:   SF Bay Area, CA
Email:
Date:   July 26, 2007

Those poor kids who died and some seriously injured in a recent accident in Calbayog, are no doubt victims of dirty politics once again! How can these politicians transport those kids like gravel and sand in a porcargo?!?

Kay nano nga kinahanglan pan hakuton ine nga kabataan pag pa rehistro? I hope the City of Calbayog and the Province of Samar are able to help the families of these children with whatever they need in terms of the hospitalization, rehabilatation, and funeral expenses. Unta dire dire-dire-an san aton mahal nga Ciudad an pag hatag financial nga bulig sine nga mga makalolooy nga familia sine nga kabataan. Bulig na yana!

Name:   Prof. W. Aray
Address:   Samar
Email:
Date:   July 24, 2007

The self-congratulatory statement about Samar catapulting to economic prosperity from economic decay's indeed a welcome news not only to the people of the region but also to the people of Pinas as awe-inspiring achievement of a long depressed and long abandoned province. it's about time Samar be elevated to prosperity from abject poverty where the citizens suffer most.

History as witness, only a small fraction of the economic pie's shared by most and the larger fraction goes to the small but powerful and influential group. This economic paradox must be reversed if the era of plenty's to stay indefinitely.

A sustained economic growth's a function of an egalitarian policy where the economic pie's being consumed by every citizens. The citizens demand goods and services provided by the entities who supply them. When the equilibrium of supply and demand curve's reached, the productivity frontier's shift forward, resulting in a robust economic activity. Expansion continues only when every economic factors are employed in production as well as consumption.

It's therefore, the responsibility of our leaders to avail the economic pie to everyone. When a large fraction of the people shares only a small slice of the pie, it's wasted since small fraction of greedy citizens can't eat it all. Share the wealth.

Maupay nga patron.

Name:   An Ordinary Girl
Address:   Catbalogan, Samar
Email:   jolie70@yahoo.com
Date:   07/22/07

Hello Everybody! Thanks to Mr. Gaspay for this website. I enjoyed reading the messages posted by the people from Samar and abroad. It's inspiring and yet it's frustrating at the same time. Kinda mixed emotions when i was reading these messages here. It's inspiring because people still have hope for improvement despite the rotten politics and yet frustrating knowing the fact that the people/voters (including the media people and the Comelec personnel) are always receiving money for their votes and services during elections.

How can we expect our leaders to improve our province/municipality when they are there to get back their own money they spent to buy votes during elections and earn more profit from what they have invested. Notice that they are fond of making more infrastructure projects (which normally has high amount of funds...millions of pesos) because they can get a big share from it. Social services are always the least that they can give. Ginkukurakot pa ngani it calamity funds...things like that.

I'm just having a hard time figuring out how can our leaders improve our province/municipality when the first thing they do is to earn back the money they spent during elections (just like a regular business - invest and earn profit). Just imagine how much money they spent and how much they earn from their salary? Tag pira gud la it sweldo han mayor, governor, etc... Mga igkasi ko taga Samar, alayon nala pagkwenta hit ira sweldo kada bulan times 3 years (one term) and then compare hit ira nagasto during election. May ganansya ba? I don't think it is possible for them to perform public service to the people before they do service to their own pockets… am I right? and we people, how can we ask for good service from them kon ginbaligya man naton an aton mga botos.

Anyway just a simple thinking from an ordinary lady nga nawawarayan na paglaom nga mag-asenso pa it aton ciudad og mga bungto. One more thing: the GSIS issue about non-remittance han mga personal contributions han mga empleyado. I just wonder why there is no action on this issue from the government. I tell you friends, ngatanan nga munisipyo han Samar nahitatabo ini. Employees' personal money nga ginkukurakot hit mga mayors ngan mga treasurers. It's so so sad to think about this. Sanglit kon naretire na an usa nga employee waray nakukuha from the GSIS because of this stupidity. Nakakasiring ako nga an angay bag-ohon naton an aton MORAL VALUES. Good Moral values, produces a good government system.

Name:   Marcel
Address:   Manila
Email:   mrsuwabe_1232000@yahoo.com
Date:   July 22, 2007

Hello mga kabayan mapabulig me pag biling hin agri farm for sale dida ha Samar o Leyte bisla gutiay nga tuna ...thanks musta an tanan.