fate has its twists and turns and life has its ups and downs. it's always a roller-coaster ride. but no matter what, make sure to stay positive at all times. believe me. you can't go wrong with this.
there are actually so many things going on around me right now. but most of them inspire me to follow my calling. well, i wasn't spending much time with close friends anymore. hectic schedule prevents me so. though at times, i miss my social life, i remain satisfied with a few special moments spent with my loved ones.
i won't be able to take a longer vacation this year. well, it's been obvious since the beginning of this year. interior design school is a priority.
though i am a laidback person who loves lounging around most of the time, i've changed since i started interior design. and i believe this year's gonna be my shining moment. i was able to spend 4 days with loved ones in a resort in the north provinces last holy week. and though it was a bit short, i was happy. the first five days of the holy week had been solemn. we visited the shrine of La Salette in our town on a Friday, had lunch and took some pictures.
it felt so good being with a family and loved ones. and these moments were just some of the priceless keepsakes of my heart.
knowing that i belong to a home warms up my heart. it's the same feeling i felt upon discovering where i really belong. and i am looking forward to the day my designs finally come to life.
see? you have to stay positive. i've never known i was meant to be an interior designer before. but maybe, right things come your way at the right time. took me so long, though. but no matter.
now i am here so happy and giddy. remember. stay positive to attract positive energy. ;)
Monday, April 20, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
8 years after
curiosity had me checking out some pictures of a familiar face today. and to my surprise, he finally graduated on the 25th of february this year.
huwaaat?! after 8 long years?!!
grabe. can't believe talaga. if i got it right, he must have graduated 4 years ago, and that makes it 2005 supposedly. 'cause last time i checked, he was in his junior year in 2003. well, sometimes fate throws you a curveball and you end up reaping what you sow. *tsk tsk*
'nyway, good for this fella. at least he'll know how it feels to be in the real world soon. what can i say? brace yourself.
huwaaat?! after 8 long years?!!
grabe. can't believe talaga. if i got it right, he must have graduated 4 years ago, and that makes it 2005 supposedly. 'cause last time i checked, he was in his junior year in 2003. well, sometimes fate throws you a curveball and you end up reaping what you sow. *tsk tsk*
'nyway, good for this fella. at least he'll know how it feels to be in the real world soon. what can i say? brace yourself.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
chinky and arrogant (apologies to all of those who are chinky-eyed)
note: some might have interpreted the satire column the wrong way. chip tsao has actually taken the role of Hong Kong chinese who have Filipino domestic helpers in their employ and he satirized their supposed reactions. he is not actually the one turning the Filipinos down since the column is a satire.
i came across a news article today. it was all about the apology of chip tsao, the hong kong magazine columnist who branded Philippines as a nation of servants. he finally said sorry and admitted to the government/people he crossed the line.
the following is the story from Inquirer, and parts of the column were included. i also posted his photo here. reading through the satirized column, it makes me cringe, to think that most chinese (those from China) who study here can't even speak English. now i don't regret not helping a Chinese classmate who was able to get into post grad school but could barely understand nor speak the English language. these chinky people (Hong Kong chinese with Filipino domestic helpers in their employ) really do come off like they do rule the world. talk about arrogance.
i admit there is some truth to it: Filipinos being domestic helpers in some parts of the world, but i have not heard of any domestic helper having a degree. that's a bit far from reality. i could not help but react negatively. i would not say i am patriotic, but just the same, i am a filipino and it hurts me reading the column demeaning the Filipinos. though it is satirized, it still hurst to know a lot of Chinese think of Filipinos this way.
The Philippines might be a third-world country, or a developing one, but it is rich in natural resources and teems with talented intellectuals, not mentioning beauties which the world came to know. and these chinky people who hail from the other side of the world [the mere mention of its name makes me cringe a bit more] usually come here and put up businesses and make themselves rich, exploiting both our resources and our people.
and if indeed they are our masters, how come some of their people come here to get rich? isn't it ironic to call themselves masters of Filipino servants? it is such a blatant display of arrogance for them to call our dear country a nation of servants. people from other parts of the world, like them, can sometimes be rude. respect is never part of their virtues. tho it might be too judgmental on my part and too general to use it as a reference, i could not help but tell that those chinky people don't have manners, esp. table manners. well, my chinese classmate who hails from that country is a perfect representation of what i'm talking about. he spits on the street in full view of the public, he blows his nose even during lunch and i-dunno-what-else-can-he-do things.
well, dear readers, just read the article and find it for yourselves.
disclaimer: the following article is owned by Philippine Daily Inquirer and all copyrights belong to the newspaper company. it is herewith pasted on this blog as a mere reference and intended for no other purposes. the photo is also owned by Philippine star and all copyrights belong to the newspaper company. it is used here merely as a reference.
HK writer: ‘So sorry, I crossed the line’
By Cynthia D. Balana
A HONG KONG MAGAZINE COLUMNIST yesterday admitted that he had indeed crossed the line when he branded the Philippines a “nation of servants” and apologized to the government and its people.
“I realized that I had crossed the line. I now offer my public apology,” columnist Chip Tsao said in interview aired at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night over Hong Kong’s ATV.
The Philippine consulate in Hong Kong relayed the apology to the Department of Foreign Affairs.
On Monday, the publishers of HK Magazine, Asia City Publishing Group, also issued an apology for “any offense” caused by Tsao’s article.
A group of Filipino migrant workers in HK have planned a protest rally against Tsao on Sunday. Dolores Balladares, chair of United Filipinos in HK, said she expected thousands of marchers.
Racist, demeaning
“We are united in our position that the article was racist, discriminatory and demeaning to Filipino domestic workers in HK.”
Tsao was yesterday quoted in a report by Agence France Presse as saying the article was a satire and “was never intended to be insulting to the Filipino domestic workers.” He then added that “English, being a global language, is open to different interpretations by those who come from various cultural backgrounds.”
Tsao’s column entitled “War at Home,” published in HK magazine on March 27, made fun of the Philippine claim on Spratly Islands and satirized the response of Hong Kong Chinese who have Filipino domestics in their employ.
The threats to Chinese sovereignty by Russia and Japan they could live with, wrote Tsao. These countries have been mentors to China or exert major cultural influences on them. “But hold on—even the Filipinos?”
Manila’s Congress, said Tsao, has recently “threatened to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: there are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working as $3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter.”
Quipped Tsao: “As a patriotic Chinese man, the news has made my blood boil. I summoned Louisa, my domestic assistant who holds a degree in international politics from the University of Manila, hung a map on the wall, and gave her a harsh lecture. I sternly warned her that if she wants her wages increased next year, she had better tell every one of her compatriots in Statue Square on Sunday that the entirety of the Spratly Islands belongs to China.”
“Grimly, I told her that if war breaks out between the Philippines and China, I would have to end her employment and send her straight home, because I would not risk the crime of treason for sponsoring an enemy of the state by paying her to wash my toilet and clean my windows 16 hours a day. With that money, she would pay taxes to her government, and they would fund a navy to invade our motherland and deeply hurt my feelings.
“Oh yes. The government of the Philippines would certainly be wrong if they think we Chinese are prepared to swallow their insult and sit back and lose a Falkland Islands War in the Far East. They may have Barack Obama and the hawkish American military behind them, but we have a hostage in each of our homes in the Mid-Levels or higher. Some of my friends told me they have already declared a state of emergency at home. Their maids have been made to shout “China, Madam/Sir” loudly whenever they hear the word “Spratly.” They say the indoctrination is working as wonderfully as when we used to shout, “Long live Chairman Mao!” at the sight of a portrait of our Great Leader during the Cultural Revolution. I’m not sure if that’s going a bit too far, at least for the time being.
Manila Immigration did not think the piece was funny. It has since barred Tsao from coming to the Philippines.
Running priest Robert Reyes, however, had said that if anyone should apologize, it should be President Arroyo for making the country a nation of servants.
i came across a news article today. it was all about the apology of chip tsao, the hong kong magazine columnist who branded Philippines as a nation of servants. he finally said sorry and admitted to the government/people he crossed the line.
the following is the story from Inquirer, and parts of the column were included. i also posted his photo here. reading through the satirized column, it makes me cringe, to think that most chinese (those from China) who study here can't even speak English. now i don't regret not helping a Chinese classmate who was able to get into post grad school but could barely understand nor speak the English language. these chinky people (Hong Kong chinese with Filipino domestic helpers in their employ) really do come off like they do rule the world. talk about arrogance.
i admit there is some truth to it: Filipinos being domestic helpers in some parts of the world, but i have not heard of any domestic helper having a degree. that's a bit far from reality. i could not help but react negatively. i would not say i am patriotic, but just the same, i am a filipino and it hurts me reading the column demeaning the Filipinos. though it is satirized, it still hurst to know a lot of Chinese think of Filipinos this way.
The Philippines might be a third-world country, or a developing one, but it is rich in natural resources and teems with talented intellectuals, not mentioning beauties which the world came to know. and these chinky people who hail from the other side of the world [the mere mention of its name makes me cringe a bit more] usually come here and put up businesses and make themselves rich, exploiting both our resources and our people.
and if indeed they are our masters, how come some of their people come here to get rich? isn't it ironic to call themselves masters of Filipino servants? it is such a blatant display of arrogance for them to call our dear country a nation of servants. people from other parts of the world, like them, can sometimes be rude. respect is never part of their virtues. tho it might be too judgmental on my part and too general to use it as a reference, i could not help but tell that those chinky people don't have manners, esp. table manners. well, my chinese classmate who hails from that country is a perfect representation of what i'm talking about. he spits on the street in full view of the public, he blows his nose even during lunch and i-dunno-what-else-can-he-do things.
well, dear readers, just read the article and find it for yourselves.disclaimer: the following article is owned by Philippine Daily Inquirer and all copyrights belong to the newspaper company. it is herewith pasted on this blog as a mere reference and intended for no other purposes. the photo is also owned by Philippine star and all copyrights belong to the newspaper company. it is used here merely as a reference.
HK writer: ‘So sorry, I crossed the line’
By Cynthia D. Balana
A HONG KONG MAGAZINE COLUMNIST yesterday admitted that he had indeed crossed the line when he branded the Philippines a “nation of servants” and apologized to the government and its people.
“I realized that I had crossed the line. I now offer my public apology,” columnist Chip Tsao said in interview aired at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night over Hong Kong’s ATV.
The Philippine consulate in Hong Kong relayed the apology to the Department of Foreign Affairs.
On Monday, the publishers of HK Magazine, Asia City Publishing Group, also issued an apology for “any offense” caused by Tsao’s article.
A group of Filipino migrant workers in HK have planned a protest rally against Tsao on Sunday. Dolores Balladares, chair of United Filipinos in HK, said she expected thousands of marchers.
Racist, demeaning
“We are united in our position that the article was racist, discriminatory and demeaning to Filipino domestic workers in HK.”
Tsao was yesterday quoted in a report by Agence France Presse as saying the article was a satire and “was never intended to be insulting to the Filipino domestic workers.” He then added that “English, being a global language, is open to different interpretations by those who come from various cultural backgrounds.”
Tsao’s column entitled “War at Home,” published in HK magazine on March 27, made fun of the Philippine claim on Spratly Islands and satirized the response of Hong Kong Chinese who have Filipino domestics in their employ.
The threats to Chinese sovereignty by Russia and Japan they could live with, wrote Tsao. These countries have been mentors to China or exert major cultural influences on them. “But hold on—even the Filipinos?”
Manila’s Congress, said Tsao, has recently “threatened to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: there are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working as $3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter.”
Quipped Tsao: “As a patriotic Chinese man, the news has made my blood boil. I summoned Louisa, my domestic assistant who holds a degree in international politics from the University of Manila, hung a map on the wall, and gave her a harsh lecture. I sternly warned her that if she wants her wages increased next year, she had better tell every one of her compatriots in Statue Square on Sunday that the entirety of the Spratly Islands belongs to China.”
“Grimly, I told her that if war breaks out between the Philippines and China, I would have to end her employment and send her straight home, because I would not risk the crime of treason for sponsoring an enemy of the state by paying her to wash my toilet and clean my windows 16 hours a day. With that money, she would pay taxes to her government, and they would fund a navy to invade our motherland and deeply hurt my feelings.
“Oh yes. The government of the Philippines would certainly be wrong if they think we Chinese are prepared to swallow their insult and sit back and lose a Falkland Islands War in the Far East. They may have Barack Obama and the hawkish American military behind them, but we have a hostage in each of our homes in the Mid-Levels or higher. Some of my friends told me they have already declared a state of emergency at home. Their maids have been made to shout “China, Madam/Sir” loudly whenever they hear the word “Spratly.” They say the indoctrination is working as wonderfully as when we used to shout, “Long live Chairman Mao!” at the sight of a portrait of our Great Leader during the Cultural Revolution. I’m not sure if that’s going a bit too far, at least for the time being.
Manila Immigration did not think the piece was funny. It has since barred Tsao from coming to the Philippines.
Running priest Robert Reyes, however, had said that if anyone should apologize, it should be President Arroyo for making the country a nation of servants.
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