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,Kung Pinoy si Noah….
 
Ganito ang mangyayari sa barko.   Read along  … …… … … … …   …  ..
 
 
 
 
Taong 2005 at isang ordinaryong middle class pinoy si Noah. Nagpakita
 
sa kanya ang Diyos at sinabing ‘Pagkataposng isang taon ay bubuhos ang
ulan at babahain ang buong kapuluan ng Pilipinas. Gusto kong
gumawa ka ng isang malaking arko at isakay mo rito ang pares-pares
na mga hayop at mga mag-asawang pilipino sa iba’t ibang
 
kapuluan.’  Ibinigay kay Noah ang specs ng Arko at taos puso nitong tinanggap ang responsibilidad na sagipin ang sambayanang Pilipino sa napipintong pagbaha.
 
Lumipas ang taon, muling nagpakita ang Diyos kay Noah.  Walang arkong
nagawa si Noah at galit na galit siyang tinanong ng Diyos, ‘Nasaan ang arko na ipinagawa ko sa iyo?’ Tumugon si Noah, ‘Patawarin po ninyo ako kung di po
natupad ang utos ninyo! Nagkaroon po ng malaking problema sa plano po ninyo .’
 
 
At inilahad ni Noah ang mga sagabal na nakaharap niya sa pag-gawa ng arko.
Humingi siya ng Mayor’s permit pero papayag lang daw si Mayor kung ang gagawa ng arko ay ang construction firm ng kanyang pamangkin. Tumungo siya sa
Congressman pero papayag lang daw si Congressman kung may matatanggap siyang
 
30% commission. Nagtayo ng unyon ang mga kinuha niyang manggagawa at nag-strike.
 

Natunugan ng mga left-leaning groups ang kanyang balak at ang mga ito ay
nag-rally dahil daw sa hindi makatarungang pagpili ng mga taong sasakay sa arko (mga taong naniniwala lang sa Diyos ang pwedeng sumakay). Nakisali sa rally ang mga bakla at tomboy dahil bias daw na normal na mag-asawa lang ang pwedeng sumakay.
 
 
Ang civil society group ay nakisali na rin sa gulo dahil napag-alaman daw nila na ang pondong gagamitin sa paggawa ng arko ay galing sa donasyon ng
mga gambling lords at katas ng weteng.
 
 
Sa kaguluhang ito ay napilitang magpatawag ng hearing ang senado ‘in aid of legislation’.  Sinubukan ni Noah na gamitin ang EO 464 para makaiwas sa hearing pero dahil hindi sya executive official, napilitan siyang tumistigo.
 
 
Nang malaman ng senado na utos ng Diyos ang pagpapagawa ng arko, dineklara
nila itong unconstitutional dahil hindi raw nito iginalang ang separation ng
church at state .
 
 
Nakialam na rin ang NBI at PNP at sinabi nilang meron silang impormasyon
na ang barko raw na ito ay gagamitin ni Erap sa kanyang pagtakas. Sinabi naman ng ISAFP at DOJ na ito raw ay gagamitin ng grupong Magdalo sa binabalak nilang coup laban kay Arroyo. Nilapitan ni Noah si Mike Defensor para makipag-usap kay GMA. Payag daw si GMA na ituloy ang arko kung ipapaskil
daw sa arko ang malaking mukha ni Arroyo na may slogan ‘Towards a Strong Republic’. ‘Hindi po ako pumayag kaya hanggang ngayon po ay may TRO ang pag-gawa ng arko. 
 
Sa palagay ko po kailangan ko pa ng 10 taon para matapos ang inyong proyekto.’ Ang huling wika ni Noah. Napa-iling ang Diyos at sinabing, ‘Di ko na kailangang
wasakin pa ang bansang ito.  Hayaan ko na lang kayong sumira nito.’ 

Here are some of the observations and views made by my students in "Media Law & Ethics" class regarding various children’s television shows.

I asked them to monitor children’s television and child-friendly programs. By definition of the law (Children’s Television Act of 1997), CHILDREN’s TELEVISION programs–are those that are specifically designed for child viewing while CHILD-FRIENDLY programs–are those that are NOT specifically designed for child viewing but can help in the development of the children provided that it has no content which would cause physical, mental, and  emotional harm to them.

Here are the comments made by my students:

"BLAZING TEENS" (gma)

by: A. Logarta, et al group

…For our group, we can really say that the program is indeed designed for the kids/children because:

• It is not that interesting for people who are of our age (18, 19 y.o.) anymore
• There is no evidence such as killing, shooting, bombing, etc. in the program. It only features on the talents and skills in handling yoyo.
• The program teaches not only things about yoyo, but it also teaches the kids who are watching the importance of teamwork.

…As a viewer,we value a television program more when it is wholesome, realistic, easy to understand and above all, educational. Nothing will compare to a program which helps us learn things which are not taught in the classroom.

"ULTIMATE BOOK OF SPELL" (qtv)

by: Press Express group

…The program has advantages and disadvantages. It encourages true friendship by experiencing some rough moments in life. The magical exhibitions demonstrated in the program open avenues for wide imaginations by the children.

However, there are violent scenes such as fighting actions which may affect child development.

"CARDCAPTOR SAKURA"

by: Kinakusgan group

…is not so friendly to children since it features fighting scenes. However, there is moral lesson in the violent scenes.

…The series somehow exposes family love, brotherly love, and the  importance of friendship.

"WANSAPANATYM" (abs-cbn)

by: Dangerous Creators group

…This fantaserye has negative effects on young children because they can not clearly mark the borderline between reality and fantasy. The themes often feature battles between good and evil.

It was made through fiction since it has been presumed that children are more likely to be more entertained and interested with fiction stories.

"GOIN’ BULILIT" (abs-cbn)

by: K. Arevalo, et. al group

…The program can most likely be classified as a child-friendly program rather than children television since it is not specifically designed for viewing by children. As such, it also caters the adults as a part of its target audience.

For we all know, a child learns as to what he sees, hears and as to what he is told. The topics of the jokes include some social and political issues which may or might come vague according to how a child perceives. Children may be too young to know and be aware of these political issues.

Another which children may imitate is the treatment of a sort of teasing a cast who happens to be vertically challenged individual in the person of Dagul. Audience might imitate the way they make fun of Dagul when they happen to see like one in the street or in the school.

At times, these children are also used as instruments to perpetrate jokes against a news television program over a rival channel:

"Ang panonood ng TV ng buong araw ay masama sa mata kaya ‘wag manoood ng 24 ORAS."

TO BE CONTINUED….

In my Cebuano Journalism (Masscom 9) class at the University of San Jose Recoletos, i have  required my students (about 90 in numbers) to produce each a Cebuano featurette. It is about anything Cebuano or Cebu or the Visayan culture and places.

The students wrote the scripts and had it edited by me before they produced it using a digital audio editing software. The finished materials were burned in CDs and played eventually in DYAB’s Sunday radio program–"Sugbuanon Na Ni" anchored by Ahmed Cuizon.

The features have been aired under the segment–"Lima ka Gutlo". Five to six features have been aired every Sunday since November 2007 and expected to end by February 2008.

In the "About Me" box,just below the podcast,  in my profile are the Cebuano features which you can listen in the player provided by esnips.com. Some of the features have yet to be uploaded.

If you wish to download the features. Go to Cebuano features folder in www.esnips.com by clicking here. Just click the title of the Cebuano feature and look for the download button to save it in your PC.

Here’s an almost perpetual calendar which you can use in your daily planning. Click the link and you will be directed to a downlink site.

DOWNLOAD PERPETUAL CALENDAR

As i had promised in "Hi-Tech ‘Ta Bai!" radio program, here’s a copy of the article on how to speed up your PC boot. This is from the Chapter 8 of the ExtremeTech book Hacking Windows XP, published by Wiley.

I am sharing this with you after i had tested it on myself. It works and hopefully it will also work on your PC and laptops.

Hacking Windows XP: Speed Up Your Boot

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Working with the BIOS

Every personal computer has a system basic input/output system, or BIOS, which is what takes control of your computer the moment that you turn it on. The screen that you first see when you turn on your computer is called the power on self test screen, better known as the POST screen. If you purchased your computer from one of the major computer manufacturers, this screen is often hidden by the manufacturer’s logo. To get rid of this logo from the screen, just press the ESC button on your keyboard; you’ll then see what is going on in the background. At this stage in the system boot, the BIOS is probing the hardware to test the system memory and other device connections. Once the POST is completed, the BIOS proceeds to look for a device to boot from. Once it finds your hard drive, it will begin to load Windows.

The BIOS also acts as a main system component control panel, where low-level settings for all of your hardware devices are made. The device boot order, port addresses, and feature setttings such as plug and play are all found in the BIOS setup screens. For example, if you want to change the order of the drives that your computer checks to boot from, then you will want to modify the device boot order. I have to modify this setting almost every time that I install Windows because I want my computer to boot off of the CD-ROM to launch the Windows XP setup application instead booting off of the operating system on my hard drive.

BIOSs on each and every PC may be made by different companies or accessed in different ways ways. Nevertheless, the most common way to access the setup screen is to press F2 or the Delete key when the POST screen is displayed. Some computers even tell you which key to push to enter setup, as my notebook does. If your PC doesn’t allow you to access the setup screen in this way, consult your computer documentation or contact your computer manufacturer for instructions.

Caution:
While you are making changes in the system BIOS, make sure you do not accidentally change any other settings. If you accidentally change a value of a setting and do not know what to change it back to, simply exit the BIOS setup screen as the on screen directions indicate and select Do NOT Save Changes. Then just reboot and re-enter the setup screen and continue hacking away at your system. Continued…

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Hacking Windows XP: Speed Up Your Boot

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Changing the Boot Order of Your Drives

Most computers are set up so that when you first turn on your computer it will check to see if you want to boot from other drives besides your hard drive. It will automatically check to see if you have a bootable CD in your CD drive. If you computer has a floppy drive, it will check to see if your have a boot disk in the floppy drive. Then once it has checked all possible locations for a boot disk, the system will default to your hard drive and start booting Windows.

What are the benefits of changing the boot order of your system devices? If you modify the order of the boot devices so that the hard disk is placed at the top of the list, the system does not have to waste time checking other devices for boot records. Just by changing the order of the devices, you can shave anywhere from one to several seconds off of your boot time, depending on the speed of your hardware.

To change the boot order (or sequence, as some call it), you will have to enter the system BIOS setup screen that was mentioned earlier.

1. Press F2, delete, or the correct key for your specific system on the POST screen (or the screen that displays the computer manufacturer’s logo) to enter the BIOS setup screen.

Caution:
Working in the BIOS setup screens will allow you to change many critical values that could affect the performance and the stability of your computer. Be careful which settings you decide to change because they may cause device resource conflicts as well as render your hardware unusable. However, there are very few settings in the BIOS that if set incorrectly, will lead to physical hardware damage. The only feature that my BIOS has that can do that is the CPU overclocking functions. If I set those values too high, my CPU could burn up. Changing basic feature settings such as the boot order will only result in a minor inconvenience if it was set incorrectly. To fix a problem, you will just have to go back into the bios and set the right value and everything will be back to normal.

1. Then look for where it says Boot and enter the sub menu.
2. Select Boot Sequence, and press Enter. Figure 8-1 shows an example of the boot sequence screen.

Figure 8-1

1. If you screen looks similar to Figure 8-1, then you are in the right place. Next, navigate to where it states "first device" and cycle through the list to where it states "Hard Disk Drive" or "IDE0" (assuming that your hard drive is connected to IDE0). If your setup screen does not specifically state "first device" but rather just a list of all of the devices, then all you have to do is select the hard disk and move it to the top of the list. That can be done by using the change values keys, which for my BIOS that is made by Phoenix, is the spacebar to move an item up, and the minus symbol key to move an item down. The specific keys are different on almost every system but the basic concepts are the same. You want to get your hard disk to the top of the list or listed as the first device from which to try to boot.
2. Once you have made the changes, exit the system BIOS by pressing the Escape key and make sure that you select to save your changes upon exit. Once you reboot, the new settings will be in effect.

What are the consequences of changing the boot order? Changing the boot order will not hurt your system in any way if you do it correctly. If by accident you remove your hard drive from the list and save the BIOS settings, you will get a pleasant surprise when your computer reboots—a statement that the computer cannot find any operating system. If you happen to get that message, then just reboot by pressing CTRL + ALT + DELETE at the same time and go back into the BIOS settings and make sure that you select your hard drive as a boot device. Once you have done that, your system will be back to normal.

Another possible issue that you may encounter is simply a matter of inconvenience. Once you change the boot order of the system devices so that the hard drive is listed first, you will no longer be able to use system restore CDs or floppy boot disks. If something has happened to your computer and you need to boot off of those drives to restore your system or run diagnostics, just go back to the system BIOS and lower or remove the hard disk from the first boot device. Continued…

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Hacking Windows XP: Speed Up Your Boot

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Using the Quick Boot Feature of the BIOS

All systems initialize in more or less the same way. During the power on self test mentioned earlier, the BIOS checks the hardware devices and counts the system memory. Out of all of the different types of system memory, the random access memory, better known as RAM, takes the longest to be counted. Counting the RAM takes time, and on a machine that has large amounts of RAM, this calculation can take several seconds. For example, a machine that has 512MB of RAM may take up to 3 seconds just to count the memory. On top of the RAM counting, a few other tests need to be done because your computer wants to make sure that all of the hardware in your computer is working properly.

All of these system tests are not needed every time that you boot, and can be turned off to save time. Most system BIOS’s offer a feature called quick boot. This feature will allow the user to turn off these test. Other BIOSs only allow you to turn off the memory check, which will still cut down on a lot of time.

To turn on the quick boot feature or turn off the memory check, just do the following:

1. Enter the system BIOS again by pressing F2 or the correct system setup Enter key upon the POST screen.
2. Once you are in the BIOS setup, locate where it states Quick Book or Memory Check as shown in Figure 8-2. Navigate with the arrow keys until the option is highlighted.

Figure 8-2

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1. Use the Change Value keys to cycle through the options and select enable for the quick boot feature or disable if your systems BIOS has the memory check feature.
2. Once you have made the change to the setting, exit the system BIOS by pressing the Escape key and make sure the save the changes upon exit.

Use of the quick boot feature or the disabling of the memory check will not do any harm your system. In fact, there are even some computer manufactures that ship their computers with these settings already optimized for performance. The only downside to disabling the tests is in the rare situation in which your RAM self-destructs; the BIOS will not catch it and you may receive errors from the operating system or your system could become unstable. If you notice that your system becomes unstable and crashes frequently or will not even boot, try going back into the BIOS and re-enable the tests to find out if your system’s memory is causing the problems. Continued…

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Hacking Windows XP: Speed Up Your Boot

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Modifying the Operating System Boot

Other hacking methods are still available that will shave a few more seconds off of the boot time. For example, you can such as cut timeout values and slim down the system to get rid of all of the extra features and services that you do not use or need. Check out the following ways to do so.

Lowering OS Timeout Values
If you have more than one operating system installed on your computer, you’ll have to deal with the OS Selector that the Microsoft installer configures during installation of another operating system. By default, the OS Selector gives you 30 seconds to select an operating system before it reverts to the default operating system. The only way not to wait 30 seconds is to select the operating system you want to use right away. If you use one operating system the majority of your time, you would definitely save time if you set that operating system as the default and lowered the timeout value to 1 or 2 seconds. That way, you would not have to select an operating system every time you turned on your system or wait 30 seconds before doing so.

With Windows XP, both Professional and Home, changing the timeout value is simple if the operating system that you use primarily is already the default. If it is, just follow these directions:

1. From the Start menu, select Run and type MSCONFIG and press OK. This will load the System Configuration utility.
2. Once the System Configuration utility has loaded, click on the tab labeled BOOT.INI, as Figure 8-3 shows.

Figure 8-3

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1. Locate the Timeout text box and replace 30 seconds with 1 or 2 seconds—or any number that gives you enough time to select the other operating systems on your system. The amount of time that you select to be your timeout value is not the amount of time that you have to select the operating system. Rather, it is the amount of time that you have to hit any key and then select the operating system. So don’t be afraid of setting this timeout value too low.
2. Once you have made the change, click the OK button, and you are finished.

If after testing out your change you feel that you gave yourself too much or too little time to select the other operating system, repeat the directions above to fine-tune your timeout time.

If you don’t have your primary operating system as your default timeout operating system and you want to do so, load Notepad from the Accessories menu in the All Programs section of the Start menu. Once Notepad is loaded, do the following to set the default:

1. Select File from the menu bar and select Open, and navigate to your root system drive. Type Boot.ini into the File Name text box and click the Open button.
2. Under the [operating systems] heading, you will see your operating systems listed. You will notice some disk and partition information that has an equal sign after it that then has the title of the operating system in quotes. Copy all of the disk and partition information to the left of the equal sign such as "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS" to the clipboard by highlighting the text with the mouse and then pressing CTRL+C.
3. Then locate where it states default in the boot configuration file. Paste the new disk and partition information over the old information to the right of the equal sign by highlighting the old information and then pressing CTRL+V.
4. Save the file and close Notepad. That’s it!

You can also change the default timeout value editing the boot.ini file in Notepad. But using the System Configuration Tool is much easier for doing so. The System Configuration Tool has a lot of other useful features, I’ll go into more detail about them in Chapter 9. Continued…

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Removing Extra Fonts for Speed

Windows XP has over 250 different font variations that it loads for use when the system boots up. Of these 250 variations, only a handful are used on a regular basis. Most likely, you really own use the core Windows fonts such as Tahoma, Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet, and MS Sans Serif. All of the other fonts can be removed from the fonts folder. As you can imagine, loading over 250 fonts is something that will take the system more time to do. Users who have installed a fonts CD, which usually has hundreds of fonts, on their systems are increasing the amount of work their computer has to do during startup. Simply put, loading a lot of fonts will take more time, since the system has to load and index each font. Thankfully there is a very simple answer to this: Just remove the fonts that you do not use from your font directory.

You can go about removing the unneeded fronts from your font directory in a number of different ways. The best way is to move the unused fonts to a separate folder on your system so that in the event that you ever want to use one of those extra fonts again, you just have to copy it back to the fonts folder.

Caution:
When you remove fonts from your computer you will no longer be able to use them in any software application, including Microsoft Word and Excel.

Before you start removing fonts from your fonts folder, take at look at Table 8-1. These fonts are commonly used, for reasons that the table explains. Be careful not to remove any fonts on which the system normally depends.

Table 8-1 - Recommended Fonts to Keep

Font Name

Reason

Verdana

Often used on web pages and applications.

Arial

Often used within applications such as Outlook.

Trebuchet

Used in the Windows interface on the Title Bar.

Tahoma

Used in the Windows interface on the Menu Bar as well as in many applications and web pages.

Times New Roman

The default font for web pages as well as applications such as Word.

MS Sans Serif

Used in some applications and web pages.

Now that you know which fonts you should not remove, you also need to be aware of one more thing before starting your adventure in the fonts folder. Inside the fonts folder there are several fonts with similar names. The fonts are broken up not only by font name but also by the type style. For example, there is an Arial Bold, Arial Bold Italic, Arial Italic, etc. When sorting through the fonts to delete, you also can choose to delete only specific types of fonts.

Deleting fonts is fairly easy. But removing the fonts is a little more tricky since the fonts folder is not like a normal folder. In order to remove the fonts, you need to start off by creating folder to put the old fonts in.

1. Open up My Computer through the icon in your Start panel or from the icon on your Desktop. Navigate to the C: drive or whatever drive on which you have Windows installed.
2. Next, navigate to the Windows folder (or WINNT folder for some). If along the way you are prompted with a screen telling you that "this folder contains file that keep your system working properly; you should not modify its contents," ignore this message and click the text that says "show the contents of this folder."
3. Now that you are inside the Windows root folder, create a folder to store the fonts that you are going to remove from the fonts folder. Right-click on the white space that lists the folder and files and select New and then select Folder. Call your folder Fonts Backup or something similar, so that you will be able to identify that this is the place that your old fonts are.
4. Once you have created the new folder, open it.
5. Next, go back to the My Computer icon in your Start panel or Desktop and open another window. Navigate to the drive you have Windows installed on and then navigate to the windows folder. Once you are inside the Windows folder, navigate to the Fonts folder.
6. Now that you have both the Fonts folder open and your backup folder open, arrange the two windows on your screen so that they look like the two windows in Figure 8-5.

Figure 8-5

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1. Now that the two font folders are side by side, to remove a font from the system, all you have to do is click on the icon in the Fonts folder that you do not want installed any more, and drag the icon over to the backup folder. This will automatically uninstall the font and will copy it to your backup folder.

In the event that you was to reinstall a font, all you have to do is drag the font file from the backup folder back to the Fonts folder. You will see an installation dialog that will flash just for a second as it adds the font back to the library. Once you drag the file back to the Fonts folder, the file will still remain in the backup directory because it just copies it there. After you have confirmed that it was actually installed again, feel free to delete the font file from the backup folder. Continued…

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The following are some of the reactions from my students in Media Laws & Ethics class at the University of San Jose Recoletos following their attendance in the Marshal Mcluhan Forum on Responsible Media held on December 7, 2007 at the USRJ audio-visual room:

From: "Dangerous Creators"

It is quie ramarkable when  Maam Inday Varona pointed out that "If a nation has no civil liberties it has no right to call itself a democratic country."  Funny, how this quote reminds us on the realities behind our present dilemma: yet we were not able to apply them as far as press freedom is concern. Thus, she added that democracy is still under siege.

From: "Mga Banggiitan"

It is clear that the bottom line of the forum is indeed about responsible media. There were questions raised asking about the Free Press. Yes, we have this so called "Freedom of the Press" but up to what extent? Everyone knows that there is no such thing in this world as absolute freedom, so where do we draw the line? It all boils down to media ethics and responsible media. The media plays a social responsibility of the society on telling what the public needs to know. The public deserves and needs the truth of all. They need to know both sides as to weigh things.

From: "Press Express"

It’s right to criticize Arroyo but it’s not right to support or sympathize with (Senator) Trillanes. That moment, the responsibility and accountability of media men were tested. They were put in the boundary of duty, life, and human rights.

Media plays a vital role in the society. Media is the window of the people of our country. Media float as it is. Philippine media is free because it has a long history of fighting for freedom. The country cannot be free if media would not stand for their rights. Press freedom and freedom of expression are important because without these freedom it is easier to manipulate the remaining freedom.

From: "Ethical Warriors"

During the forum, we had learned that media is a tool to diverge people in their culture in all around the world. Media has the responsility to inform the people what are the happenings in the society. It is the window of truth..

By all those discussions there is one important thing that retains in our minds and hearts that as a media man we need also to take good care of our life most especially when we are on duty. If we won’t who will then inform the public on the status quo of our society. Yes, we need to leave the place where we sense danger and it can possibly imperil our lives.

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"It is not the barrel of the gun that extinguishes us from this profession but it is our empty stomach that could force us to leave from media."

I said it and I said it again and i’m going to say it again.

I said it sometime 2006 before a gathering in Manila of some Southeast Asian journalists, who were part of the Konrad Adenauer Center for Journalism, when killings of journalists were discussed.

I had emphasized then that no amount of threats could coward our fate to deliver the truth in the exercise of our journalism practice.

On Friday, December 7, 2007–I have reiterated that frank statement of mine before the attendees of the Marshal Mcluhan Forum Series on Responsible Media at the Audio-Visual Room of the University of San Jose Recoletos in Cebu City, Philippines.

The forum, dubbed "Lives in Conflict: Human Rights and the Media" had Philippine Graphics editor Maria Salvacion "Inday" Varona as main speaker.

I was one of the three reactors from the media. I repeated the statement in reaction to Ma’am Inday’s talk on the spate of journalists killings in the country.

I told the attendees in the forum, mostly students of mass communications from various universities, that if I was among the journalists inside Manila Peninsula on the afternoon of November 29, 2007, i wouldn’t hesitate to stay inside even if the threats of our lives had becoming intense.

About 50 journalists were inside the Manila Peninsula tagging with the group of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV when the combat-packed Special Action Force from the Philippine National Police fired tear gas in preparation for the evident attack against some 30 armed supporters of Senator Trillanes and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim.

Media always opt to get the news "by hook or by crook" and even crossing the police lines at the crime scene has always been a natural thing in news coverage.

While it is not appropriate to cross the lines but journalists oftentimes brandish his media pass to get in for the pursuit of his commitment to get the news right from the horse’s mouth.

I recalled my experience while covering the Mindanao War in 1999 between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front as a proof that i am not afraid of the exchanges of gun shots while in the middle of a coverage.

While, it is true that journalists have also their families to feed and have children to raise–that journalistic instinct to cover the event prevailed over and above anything else even losing the opportunity to reunite with their families.

"No retreat, No Surrender" and  "Walang atrasan" are always the choices for the media.

Obstruction of justice may be a case against the journalists who remained at the Manila Peninsula. On the other hand, journalists leaned on the freedom of the press as guaranteed by our constitution to be their defense of the case.

Lastly, everyone in the forum agrees that the arrest of about 30 journalists at the Manila Peninsula was illegal.

    My friends and  contacts asked me who’s  the kid in the picture whenever they chat with me in YM. Well, they asked–‘Kaw na? Anak nimo? Liwat man gud kaayo nimo.

Yes! That’s me! It was taken when i was still in Grade 3–about 9 years old. My late Auntie Hera took me to the studio for this picture since it was a requirement in our school.

If you’ve noticed it’s in sepia. The picture is clear white but this is a scanned copy from a wood laminated certificate. Hence, it’s somewhat brownish.

I’m taking care of this picture because this is the only picture, that i was still a child, left in my files. Sad but it’s true.

My friends in YM are also wondering if this picture is mine. Of course, not me. It’s surely look like me or i look like him. The picture was taken 50 years ago. He’s my father who is now 74 yrs old. Asa man diay liwat?

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:  DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:  BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters: MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:  A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:  THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:  HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:  HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:  CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:   IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:  LIES - LET’S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:  ALAS! NO MORE Z ‘S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:  IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:  THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:  TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:
MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:  WOMAN HITLER