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About MayaFlaminda's Pen
This blog reveals snippets of my daily encounters with the corrupt, crazy, profound, interesting, famous, exciting, mind blowing on the streets, at home, in the jeepney, at the beach, on the plane, in the market, while driving. You get the picture. Welcome to my life, my feelings, my thoughts.
PICTURES
Most (but not all) of the pictures posted with the blog entries are taken from the world wide web.
Wereld Kamp 2006 Nyam Dunde (Belgium)
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My Life
Have been busy house-building and caring for an urban garden full of vegetables, fruit trees and herbs. That's when I'm not developing curricula and monitoring schools in Mindanao.
During a recent sightseeing trip to South East Asia, I lost my camera on the train from Singapore to Malaysia! Somewhere along the way I also lost the discipline to blog which I'm now trying to resuscitate. One entry a week.
So here it goes!
During a recent sightseeing trip to South East Asia, I lost my camera on the train from Singapore to Malaysia! Somewhere along the way I also lost the discipline to blog which I'm now trying to resuscitate. One entry a week.
So here it goes!
About VIEWFINDER
This year I want to revive VIEWFINDER, my defunct radio talkshow on 105.9 MIX FM. Plan is to continue getting top student debaters in Mindanao. In the past, we talked about beauty pageants, fraternities and hazing, political dynasties, animal intelligence and animal testing, the rice crisis, homophobia, etc. Wherever you are in the world, you can listen and join our discussion through the live internet radio feed found on 105.9 MIX FM's website. (Details to follow as soon as show resumes.) I'm crossing my fingers.
Previously on VIEWFINDER
- MOA on Ancestral Domain - (Aug. 10,'08)
- Planning Subdivisions - (Aug. 3,'08)
- Living Meaningfully - (July 20,'08)
- Call Centers - (July 13,'08)
- American Elections - (July 6,'08)
- Reality TV - (June 29,'08)
- Vegetarianism - (June 22,'08)
- Homophobia - (June 8 & 15,'08)
- Rice Shortage - (May 25,'08)
- Aerial Spraying - (May 18,'08)
- Indie Filmmakers - (Apr. 27 & May 11,'08)
- Basic Education - (Apr. 6, 13 & 20,'08)
- Graduatin & Workin - (Mar. 16 & 30,'08)
- People Power - (Mar. 9,'08)
- Corruption in Pinas - (Mar. 2,'08)
- Choices We Make - (Feb. 17 & 24,'08)
- Matters of the Heart - (Feb. 10,'08)
- You Are Filipino If - (Feb. 3,'08)
- Global Warming - (Jan. 6,'08)
VIEWFINDER update!!!
- Volunteers interested to join VIEWFINDER production - researching, writing, marketing, debating - let me know. Interesting topics in mind? I'm all ears.
My Reach
- Sarah: Working mom with 4 kids
- Linda: Fulltime blogger in Pinas
- Kristine: Doting mom in Canada
- Teng: Moro in Mindanao
- Vicel: Married in Afghanistan
- Lili: Mestiza in Germany
- Pieter: Belgian in Davao
- Karla: Kolehiyala sa Ateneo
- Keith: American Warrior
- Fernand: IT expert in BEAM
- Ayyi: Soulful Seeker
- Macuha: Filipinas everywhere
- Shirley: Feminist Pinay
- Landslide Threat in Ma-a
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About Me
- MayaFlaminda
- Was born in Butuan City, grew up in Belgium and Holland and Antique. Live alone next door to Bayani, Norma, Arnold, Belen and Gang-gang. Our cat, Kits, and our dog, Marty, complete the gang.
The Ironies of the World
Irony, Alanis Morissette croons, “is a free ride when you’ve already paid. It’s finally meeting the man of your dreams -- and then meeting his beautiful wife! It’s ten thousand spoons -- when all you need is a knife.”
In the real world, irony is much more than just wanting a knife but having a spoon instead. How does a country with only a few thousand elementary schools accommodate 30 million children? Answer: Improvise! Let one group of children go to school in the morning and let the other group go to school in the afternoon. That’s exactly what’s happening in thePhilippines
The irony is that there has never been so much food and so much money in the world: twice the amount we had in 1975 and seven times the amount we had in 1950. There’s certainly more than enough money for decent schools for all the 30 million Filipino students.
IF the world’s nations were to divide their resources equally, each one of us would be earning 15 euros. In reality, however, half of the world’s people earn less than two euros. And one in five people earn less than one euro. This is while the richest 200 people of the world earn 25 euros - every second! Irony is one European cow being worth 110 Africans. It’s some people dying of too much food while every day, 800 million others go hungry.
In the real world, irony is much more than just wanting a knife but having a spoon instead. How does a country with only a few thousand elementary schools accommodate 30 million children? Answer: Improvise! Let one group of children go to school in the morning and let the other group go to school in the afternoon. That’s exactly what’s happening in the
The irony is that there has never been so much food and so much money in the world: twice the amount we had in 1975 and seven times the amount we had in 1950. There’s certainly more than enough money for decent schools for all the 30 million Filipino students.
IF the world’s nations were to divide their resources equally, each one of us would be earning 15 euros. In reality, however, half of the world’s people earn less than two euros. And one in five people earn less than one euro. This is while the richest 200 people of the world earn 25 euros - every second! Irony is one European cow being worth 110 Africans. It’s some people dying of too much food while every day, 800 million others go hungry.
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3 comments:
nice picture, maya. where was this taken? made me miss antique. never gonna have that kind of view here in my office.
so, i just made it as my desktop wallpaper. he he he....
thank you.
cheers!
yes nice picture!! hello this is almong and i found you in the category of who intersted in sign language. and found many similar taste as mine..were you born in butan? me really like to visit there someday.--me from korea and now in new zealand
..bye maya
Hi May!
Mayad nga aga
Im glad to read your articles and browse your pictures.You already know that you are a good writer and let me inform that I'm an added fan :). That your articles have been published in national and local papers shows that you have the gift of writing. You are very articulate and have the knack of getting the attention of readers. Base nasubrahan ako ka dayaw pero tuod man mong hehehe! Hope someday you could compile your articles and publish a book.
For me, the most intriguing and interesting article is "Macho i love yous." The articles "overdosed and homecoming tales & religious blues" speak of your experiences. And for those who just met you, like me, those articles, in a way, are medium of knowing you.
More power and hope to read more of your writings!
God Bless!
Benjamin Solis: bcjs2000@yahoo.com
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