I like this girl, Maria Theresa Pangilinan.
She did what none of the graduates of the Philippine Military Academy, who will have a career as “protector of the people and the state”, dared do.
Last Friday, while Gloria Arroyo was talking about state universities producing more nurses and caregivers to be sent to foreign countries at the Cavite State University commencement exercises, Pangilinan shouted “Patalsikin si Gloria!” (Oust Gloria!) while holding up a red banner with words “No to Cha-cha”.
A few minutes later, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, guests seated at the section reserved for guests and relatives raised more streamers calling for Arroyo to step down while chanting “Pahirap sa masa, patalsikin si Gloria (A burden to the masses, oust Gloria).”
The Inquirer report said the protesters in the guests and relatives section were members of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and the Solidarity Cavite Workers. It was reported that the group was brought to the police station. What happened to them, we still have to know.
Pangilinan, who studied Mass Communication, was president of the university’s Central Student Government.
With more and more Filipinos believing that Arroyo cheated in the 2004 elections, which makes her a fake president, last Friday’s incident was a happening just waiting for the right occasion and the right moment.
This is within the realm of UP professor Randy David’s idea of a “social boycott” of Arroyo. Arroyo is in power, despite being disliked by majority of the Filipinos, because of the tools of “coercion and remuneration” which she brazenly uses. “There is no way we can fight the power of money except holding the face of truth to it and there is no way we can fight coercion except by acts of solidarity with its victims,” he said.
That’s what Pangilinan and those Bayan and SCW guests did last Friday – hold up truth that she is a fake president to Gloria Arroyo’s face.
The news report quoted Supt. Roberto Soriano, Cavite police operations chief , as telling the protesters “Huwag kayong mambastos (Don’t be rude).”
Now, sino ang nambastos (Who was rude)?
Was it not Gloria Arroyo when she cheated in the 2004 elections using the Commission on Elections as her cheating machine and the Armed Forces of the Philippines as her cheating operators?
Sino and nambastos?
Was it not Gloria Arroyo with her unconstitutional E.O. 464, Calibrated Pre-emptive Response and Proclamation 1017?
Sino ang nambastos?
Is it not Gloria Arroyo with her fake People’s Initiative using government resources to change the Constitution to cover up her crimes against the Filipino people so that she can stay in power forever?
Presidential chief of staff Michael Defensor said because of what happened at CVSU, there is a need to strengthen the security arrangements in Arroyo’s engagements outside Malacañang.
This is the biggest accomplishment of Pangilinan. By one courageous act, she has caused the isolation of Arroyo.
As Malacañang intensifies its security around Arroyo, she would be addressing only her cheering squad. Time will come when it would not even be safe for her to venture out of Malacañang. Time will come when the only place safe for her would be out of the country.
Ellen,
Fantastic tit-for-tat you wrote here.
May I add my own thoughts which I published in my blog 2 days ago:
“Heckling erring presidents: Bad manners or good manners in courage?
“I just read a column in one of Manila’s broadsheets taking a swipe at Maria Theresa Pangilinan, the young Masscom graduate who “heckled” Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the middle of her speech to the graduating students of the Cavite State University. The writer alluded to Pangilinan as having bad manners. The columnist also went on to write about the young Chinese lady who heckled the Chinese president in the presence of President Bush at the White House lawn recently…
Come on! I don’t believe that what those girls did smacked of bad manners at all. It takes a great deal of physical and moral courage to do what those two women did. I believe there could not have been a better fora than the ones where the ladies found themselves in. Unless some charges against them are fabricated, they did nothing illegal. Perhaps, there was a “breach” of courtesy somewhere but NOT TO THEIR respective presidents, i.e., Chinese president, Gloria Macapagal, but to say that they had bad manners is kinda going hammer and tongs at them and really now, the targets of the young ladies’ hecklings deserved to be heckled.
“In the case of Maria Theresa Pangilinan, frankly, she couldn’t have done a better job of teaching a few people real manners on the question of courage in public. Should we consider that a “breach of courtesy” was committed indeed and if we really want to be sticklers for social niceties, we could say that the “breach of courtesy” was committed against a few dissenting members of the graduating class but they’ll get over it, they’re young…
“On the other hand, Gloria Macapagal should consider herself lucky that Maria Theresa’s heckling was short-lived. Anyway, Macapagal had it coming because she herself is one persona who has no qualms about being totally foul and discourteous to other people particlulary in full public view when she shows off her inherent crass, spoiled-brat behaviour. (Remember how she berated a lady journalist once, Ms Panganiban-Perez I believe is her name; Gloria was so foul too to poor Acsa Ramirez, she never apologized to her nor expressed remorse for having been simply disgustingly foul and horrid to her, etc.)
To me, Gloria is one person who is utterly devoid of class. When she was growing up (did she ever grow UP?), she probably thought that being tagged a “SNOB” was a compliment. Hah! She wouldn’t know now, would she that “SNOB” means “sine nobilitate”, “sans noblesse”, without nobility in other words, IGNOBLE!
“Manolo Quezon commented once in one of his blogs that “bastusan” was what was happening when Gloria decided to do a song and dance thing with her so-called emergency powers. What Pangilinan did when she stood up in a ceremeony that was in her honor too (let’s not forget that it was HER day too – she was graduating…), was NOT at all “bastos”. Alright, she called out loud saying that Gloria Macapagal was a fake president but hey, aren’t we all in agreement over that? Then she unfurled a banner that said “No to Cha-Cha!” What’s bad mannered about that? Pangilinan didn’t call Gloria horrible names which Gloria deserved.
“Maria Theresa Pangilinan not only spoke out her dissent in style, she also did it with great effect and WITHOUT any violence. In other words, I believe she did right because every forum becomes the right forum to express one’s grievances when legal avenues for proper dissent are being closed down abusively and wantonly and when a so-called president stifles people’s rights to address her in any other forum!”
Re: nurses and care givers
For info, the UK National Health Service is about to streamline its health care staff. According to nurses associations and confirmed by the BBC tonight, more than 13 thousand nurses are expected to be laid off.
This streamlining will have an effect on the hiring of nurses from overseas and I reckon, UK hospitals will stop “importing” nurses from abroad, the Philippines included.
This is bad news for our nurses in Pinas wishing to apply to UK hospitals but perhaps good news for our own health care system in the country.
I think Gloria should stop boasting of exporting people abroad now. Most European nations are becoming very hard on immigrant workers.
Juan de la Franco, one of the more prominent Fil-com leaders in France reckoned that out of the 20,000 Filipinos in France (more or less), more than 80% are TNTs and are forced to live in the fringes.
Hi Anna, in the newspaper version of this column I included some of the comments posted in this blog on Pangilinan. I included yours.
Who was that columnist that said Ma. Theresa Pangilinan is ill-mannered?
I find it disgusting that a president would act as recruiter for foreign companies of Filipino workers, which is what Gloria is doing.
Hospitals are already crying SOS because there’s a shortage of competent nurses and doctors manning health facilities and you have a president pushing Filipinos out of the country just to earn dollars that will keep her illegal administration afloat.
Hail Ma. Theresa Pangilinan!!!!! Iyan ang tunay na Pilipino. Lumalaban, nagsasabi ng totoong damdamin. Hindi tulad ng mga pulitiko natin, ng mga generals, ng mga taong nasa malacanang, mga walang bayag, nababayaran ang dangal, pati pangalan nila ay kanilang sinisira para lamang sa pera. O anong masasabi ni gloria ngayon??? Nakakita siya ng katapat. Sana lamang si Theresa ay hindi kamag-anak ni Senator Kiko Pangilinan alyas “noted man”
Hi Ellen,
It’s 11:51 here in Oz and I just woke-up from a bad dream. I seldom go to bed at 10pm but tonight I did as I am still tired from my trip back home (diyan sa Phils.)
Anyway, my dream was I attended a town fiesta in my family’s place and Gloria Arroyo was there shaking hands with people, when she was near me, I said in a loud voice “Buang ka ya Gloria” (Ellen, being from Iloilo, you understand what it means) and she asked me “what did you say?” My family started to get panicked and I said “why can’t I say what I want to say to her?” Then Gloria said to me “follow me” which I did and I said to her “you know in Australia, people say whatever they want to say to the Prime Minister and he doesn’t put anybody to jail as we are free to practice our freedom of speech.” She just kept walking and we passed a woman and she embraced the woman and said “natatakot na sila” Meanwhile, some of my relatives were so worried that I might not be able to come back here in Australia and they were talking of getting a lawyer and so I said, I have to call my husband back in Oz to let him know what’s going on here, I was about to press my cellphone number when my spinster aunt told me to “get in a tricycle, we are going to see Gloria in Alabang”. That was the end.
I got up from the bed and wrote this down in a piece of paper as I don’t feel like turning on the computer and went back to sleep. I find my dream funny but if given a chance to meet Gloria I will surely say those words to her. So I admire Maria Theresa Pangilinan for her courage.
Yes, I wish there’s more young people like Maria Theresa in our homeland.
24 April 2007
Ms. ellen,
I was on my way home when I heard it over the radio, that a student from cavite state college shouted the gloria resign and no the chacha. It was not a surprissed as the moment has been waiting from the sideline to happen, and it did happen. Mike defensor said let us give respect to the president??? president who??? but according to my old folks (some have already passed away) respect can not be bought, hence respect should be earned. Meaning respect to oneself results to respect by others. How can you/anybody respect a person who has been labeled a “LIAR, A CHEATER AND A STEALER”. Respect has to be earned if you have respected others.
In a radio program at DZbb today, gloria has been talking about the removal of the E-VAT on petroleum products, in the first place, why the heck did they impose that 12% e-vat, now the leprechaun want is remove.
Going back to respect, did she respect the will of the people when she imposed the CPR and PP1017 anf the infamous EO464??? nahhhh, she did not. The only way that people will respect her and her buddy noli “KAYABANG” de castro and her clowns, is for her to call a snap election and to respect the result.
ARABELLA,
For your information, its not a dream, “ITS A NIGHTMARE” that you have, be thankful that gloria, dressed ala freddy krugger” did not appear in your nightmare, hehehehehehehehe!!!!!
jinx
Ellen, Anna might have mistaken an entry in my blog as from a journalist. Please correct me if i’m wrong ADB.
Kung aakusahan si Ma. Theresa Pangilinan na isang bastos ano pa kaya ang miaakusa ke gloria?? Mas bastos si gloria kasi binababoy niya ang ating batas, binabalewala ang konstitusyon, nandadaya at nagsisinungaling. Iyan ang kabastusan!!! Ang paggalang ay kusang ibinibigay sa isang taong kagalang-galang. Hindi iyon ipinipilit o iniuutos. Gloria will reap what she sow!!!
Ellen,
It was in Max Soliven’s column.
No Jon, it wasn’t you.
E-mail from Lorenzo de Vega:
Nais kong ipaabot sa ating mga kababayan, sa pamamagitan ng iyong email, ang aking paghanga at pag tingala sa kagitingan na ipinamalas ni Ms. Pangilinan na tinukoy, maraming taon na ang nagdaan, ng ating bayani na si Dr. Jose Rizal na ang ating kabataan, na si Ms. Pangilinan nasa grupo ng ating kabataan, ay walang kadudaduda na nalalabi na lang na pag-asa ng ating bayan.
Ano ba sa palagay natin, na tayong nakakatanda, sa PAGBALASUBAS sa kasagraduhan ng balota. sa ating mga nakakatanda marami na tayong pinagdaanan na panahon sa mundong ito na bitbit natin ang ginintuang pangaral ng ating mga magulang.
Mga aral at pangaral ng ating mga guro, pagkatapos ginawang basahan na lang. Ganun na lang ba kasimple yun. FATHER LIKE DAUGHTER: TUSO. Yung ama nagkaroon ng gentleman agreement kay Marcos na huwag na silang magkonbensyon at pagbigyan si Dadong na kumandidato bilang presidente sa ilalim ng LP. Nanalo si Dadong at natapos ang 4 na taon na term niya. Eh, nasarapan tinalikuran niya yung gentleman agreement nila ni Marcos. TINUSO NIYA SI MARCOS. Si Dadong kumandidatong muli. TALO!
Si ama tinosu niya isang tao lamang. Yung anak tinuso niya buong bayan. Buong tribong pinoy. Ha! ha! ha! ito dinadaan ko nalang sa tawa. MISS PANGILINAN YUNG GINAWA MO AY KAGILAGILALAS AT KAHANGAHANGA. MARAMI PA SANA ANG LUMITAW NA MEMBRO NG IYONG TRIBUNG KABATAAN. YUNG MGA IBANG SUNDALO DIYAN WALANG BILOG. 101% JUSTIFIED!
MABUHAY KA! MABUHAY ANG PILIPINAS!
THANK YOU ELLEN. TULOY-TULOY KA LANG ELLEN. SALUDO AKO SA IYO. GOD BLESS YOU ALL! GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY!
E-mail from Conrado Heruela:
Hi Ellen,
Sa pamamagitan mo, nais ko lang ipaabot sa editor ng Abante at news reporter na si Grace Velasco – sumulat sa nangyari insidente sa Cavite State University, at binigyan ng puntos sa kanyang istorya ay ang “pambabastos” daw ng mga estudyante ng pamantasang ito.
Mas lumawak pa ang mga maging mambabasa mo.
Thanks ADB,
I used to be an avid reader of Soliven’s column at philstar, but not anymore.
Jon,
In his more recent columns, Max was on the warpath because he thought his very good friend Bert Romulo was being sideswiped – to be replaced by Baja as foreign affairs secretary – and indirectly took on Gloria but reading between the lines, I think he’s decided to cool his heels when he got the assurance that Romulo was going to stay on.
He probably took the battle tested approach of “the best line of defence is attack” and perhaps by adopting that method, he “saved” Romulo.
I reckon, Gloria will go out of her way to please Max more than ever because she now realizes that she is not THAT immuned to what I like to call the “Max Factor”.
PNP Chief Lomibao is making full use of the “Max Factor” method and he’s obtaining good results – he might even be extended after his tour of police duty is legally terminated.
Ex-BSP governor Paeng Buenaventura was one of those people who got extremely good results because of the “Max Factor”. During Erap’s time and even after Erap’s term, if you remember, Paeng’s job (which, by the way carried a fixed mandate) was being coveted by some quarters. Max went on the attack in many of his columns and Paeng Buenaventura stayed on. Max became a loyal and fierce supporter of Paeng after a 1998 incident during a German embassy festivity when the German ambassador himself “humilited” Max in front of other guests and said “What are you doing here? You are not invited!” or something to that effect. Max left in a huff but Paeng walked out of the German reception with him (in support of Max), an act which Max never forgot.
Max went on to attack the German ambassador in his columns for days and ended it only when someone “leaked” out a government deal which was supposed to be signed by Erap involving the British Marconi radar purchase approved by then DOTC Usec Josephine Lichauco. Max promptly attacked that deal (the Aranetas were the agents of the British firm) which became a cause celebre in Manila for a time.
Hi Jinx,
Yes, having Gloria Arroyo in anybody’s dream is a nightmare, hehehe. She is a nightmare to millions of Filipinos in real life.
May naniniwala pa ba kay Max Soliven? Nang magsabog ng kayabangan ang demonyo sa daigdig, lahat halos sinalo niya. Gusto niya lagi siyang naka-picture. Tingnan na lang ninyo kung bakit sila nagdemandahan ni Roberto Romulo. Tama lang na magsama sila ni gma. Isang mayabang at isang magnanakaw pero parehong bengador. Sabi nga ni erap “birds of the same feather are still the same bird.”
to jon and anna,
same here–i used to read soliven’s column but not anymore. i got turned off when i read one of his columns during the marine standoff when i found out he was more leaning towards pandak. i boycotted philstar for a while and then kung babasahin ko man doon na lang sa “entertainment” section.
MABUHAY KA MA. THERESA PANGILINAN!!! way to go, girl! babae lang ang katapat nyang gloriang yan. remember susan roces with all anger and courage she shouted during the press conference on national television (which we have watched over here in qatar on TFC live coverage)”DI KO MATATANGGAP ANG SORRY MO!” she was palaban at that time, walang takot. dapat lahat tayo–lalaki o babae man–dapat maging matapang at maging malakas ang loob na labanan si pandak. buti nga sa kanya. nakakita rin siya ng katapat. and i believe marami pa sa atin ang katapat ni gloria. dapat lang maging matapang at matatag. that is what i call GUTS–lakasan lang ng loob yan. huwag kang matakot, Ms. Pagilininan, we are right behind you. sana nga di ka kamag-anak ni kiko pangilinan, si mr. “noted”..God bless you…
Ms. Maria Theresa Pangilinan is really of different breed – incomparable with her namesake Francis “Mr. Noted” Pangilinan! She got the guts and courage to voice out her feelings! I salute you, Ms. Pangilinan!
How many amongst our youth will do the same given the same circumstance? Where are the youth who subscribe to the “text brigade” during the impeachment of Erap?
See the nightmare we are all experiencing nowadays.
hi ellen, i’m taking the liberty to post the resignation letter of mike luz in this blog. dapat lang na mag-resign sya at makawala sa pekeng administration ni pandak.isa siyang matinong tao di tulad ni pandak. tulad din siya ni ma. theresa pangilinan na matapang at walang takot na lumaban kay pekeng pangulo.
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REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
KAGAWARAN NG EDUKASYON
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
DepED Complex, Meralco Avenue, Pasig City, Philippines
Juan Miguel LuzTelefax: 631-9640
Undersecretary, Finance & Administration Direct Line: 633-9342
Pangalawang KalihimTrunkline: 632-1361 local 2221/2007
E-Mail Address: jmluz@deped.gov.ph
Website: http;//www.deped.gov.ph
19 April 2006
H. E. GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO
President
Republic of the Philippines
Malacanang Palace
Manila, Philippines
Dear Madame President:
As a professional educator who rejoined Government in 2002 to try to make a difference in our public education system, I have now made the decision to resign as Undersecretary, Department of Education and to return to the private sector on my own terms, effective the close of office hours 21 April 2006.
I have indicated publicly that I have no desire to be reassigned at the “president’s pleasure” to some other agency “for the exigency of the service” – two of the most misused concepts in the vocabulary of the Office of the President.
I do thank the President for the opportunity to have served your Administration in two capacities:
First, as director of the Governance Advisory Council, the private sector advisory body to the president on governance reforms1;
Second, as Undersecretary, Department of Education (October 2002 – October 2005).
It is in the latter position that I reactivated my CESO ranking first received when I was with the Office of the President during the Administration of President Corazon C. Aquino. At that time, all presidential appointees were directed to secure CESO eligibility and rank in order to attain the necessary security of tenure that would make them immune from politics from administration to administration. The CESO is a mark of professionalism that even the President of the country cannot mess with despite her mistaken notion that career professionals “serve at her pleasure”.
In the past three years, much has been done to put in place education reforms in this Department. Public education is a sector where there are no quick fixes. It takes ten years to educate a child in basic education, a period when there will likely be up to ten appointed secretaries of education.2 There is no room for quick-fix solutions with dubious value-added to the public school system (e.g. Strong Republic Schools, rice distribution rather than in-school-feeding programs and the like). What is needed is steady, continuous and committed investment based on a clear and focused education agenda.
The incident involving the issuance of post-dated cheques (not allowed under government accounting and auditing rules) from the President’s Social Fund (with no documentation) intended for projects of certain politicians and attempting to use the Department as a conduit for this purpose is also revealing of the following:
(1)How little value is placed on genuine education reforms by this Administration;
(2)The low level of trust in the Department of Education as contributing to the development of this country as a nation;
(3)A high disregard for government accounting and auditing rules and regulations (with civil servants expected to follow instructions in the face of this disregard for law, at their peril); and,
(4)The low regard this Administration has for the professionalism of the civil service and the career executive service corps.
Since 2002, education reforms both in terms of financial management and support to the academic programs of schools and school divisions (together with other initiatives) have helped establish the Department of Education as one of the five cleanest (least corrupt) national agencies in the Social Weather Station’s annual “Enterprise Survey”. This has been cause for great pride in the DepED considering that ours was once listed as one of the five most corrupt agencies in the same survey prior to that period.3
I consider my three-and-a-half years with the Department of Education as the most important and fulfilling in my professional life. I have worked with education professionals – teachers, principals and schoolheads, supervisors, superintendents, directors and non-teaching staff – nationwide who place great value in their work and are committed to delivering quality education despite the low levels of resources given them and the fact government worker salaries have never been raised in the five years of this Administration.4
My greatest regret now is that the education reforms we have worked hard to put in place may not survive given this Administration’s preoccupation with political expediency rather than genuine reform; with deal-making rather than development; as well as the lack of appreciation, much less commitment, to the rule of law and good governance.
Ours can never be a strong republic given this traditional approach of politics first. Ours cannot be a Government of quality if the professionalism of the civil service is constantly under siege by politics.
One hopes that in the remaining four years of this Administration, that there be an epiphany of spirit and in the consequent behavior of our leaders. Otherwise, we are destined to muddle through another half-decade, divided and distracted, while the rest of the region marches forward confidently and with the best interests of their citizens in mind.
I remain,
JUAN MIGUEL LUZ
Undersecretary
Department of Education
dapat ipamukha sa pekeng pangulo ng pilipinas itong wise saying at golden rule ni confucius:
“DO NOT DO UNTO OTHERS WHAT YOU DON’T WANT OTHERS TO DO UNTO YOU”
pandak, binastos mo buong pilipino, dapat lang na bastusin ka rin. gantihan na na lang.
Mabuhay ka Maria Theresa Pangilinan. Tama ang sinabi na Ms. Ellen, nagawa mo ang di kayang gawin ng mga nasipagtapos na PMA kamakailan lang. Mas matapang ka sa kanila. Nawa’y dumami pa ang tulad mo. Muli, Mabuhay ka Ms. Maria Theresa Pangilinan.
Thanks, tImang, for Mike Luz’s letter.
Resignation of good men from GMA’s cabinet is another form of protest that has the effect of ioslating her. I hope Energy Secretary Rafael Lotilla and Labor Sec. Pat Sto. Tomas follow suit.
Hanga ako sa iyo Maria Theresa P. ( sorry, ayaw kong banggitin ng buo ang last name m o kase nakakasuka si Mr. Noted bakit ba naging same last name pa kayo.)
Lord please tulungan Mo po si Maria Theresa sa kasong ibibigay sa kanya at sa iba pa nyang kasamahan.
gud day!
i’m from cavite state u batch 2005. for 5 years of stay in CVSU.. knowing the repression and suppression na naransanan namin being student leaders and writers sa mga admisnitrador..gagawin nila ang lahat para ma-hold ang mga pertinent papers ni Ma. Theresa at ng isa pang estudyante na si Apol Dayandayan (yung lalaki pong nagladlad ng streamer at di pnyagan n umakyat ng stage).
students from our school are too passive sa mga issues sa loob at labas ng campus kaya ang nasa isip nila ay sinira ng mga leftist group ang graduation nila
pero para sa akin isang panggigisng sa pikit na mata at saradong mga bibig ng mga magulang ang ginawa nila Ma. Theresa. eye opener ika nga…
I hope and pray that she will overcome whatever difficulties school administrators will impose on her on her and Apol.
Would you know how to contact them? please let me know.
I think Gloria Arroyo thought that the CVSU community is docile and stupid. I’m sure she would not dare step in UP’s gounds afraid of the military community there. She thought her propaganda efforts fooled the CVSU community. She was wrong!
Ellen, Badong,
It really is extremely pathetic that they did not allow Apol to go on stage and receive his diploma.
The Cavite State U officials are being stupid, extremely stupid about it. They have just created a future “destibilizer” or anti-establishment in Apol. What right have they to deprive a child of his award, to deprive a young person who worked all the way through to achieve an education of his right to be recognized by his peers? These officials are absolutely foul – they must remember that they cannot be on earth forever.
Pity that the graduating could have shown solidarity by walking out of the ceremony when one of them was deprived the right to receive his diploma. They after all had really nothing to lose – they have completed their degree and cannot be “failed” by the school anymore. Such an act would have proven to this foul and coward generation of elders that the youth of today have the moral and physical courage to take on the daunting tasks of leading the next generation of Filipinos (where their elders failed, i.e., school officials, Gloria, her armed goons, etc.). That exercise cannot be equated with disrespect.
For one thing, I do think that respect for elders has not changed (even in Europe), the youth of today, particularly the educated ones know where boundaries are but with one difference – I believe that the young are beginning to have bit more freedom to develop a mind of their own so, are quicker to discern right from wrong on their own and to say so without having to refer to mother, father, grandparents, etc, all the time, a freedom which people of my generation enjoyed to the fullest.
I grew up in a household where parents or grandparents or my elders were supossed to be right all the time – and couldn’t say the contrary even if I thought they were wrong – until I left home.
Ooops, correction:
“…mother, father, grandparents, etc, all the time, a freedom which people of my generation DID NOT ENJOY to the fullest.”
I’ll ask Ate Tere first, if you don’t mind. ^_^
The officials of the CVSU can not hold the credentials of those students involved in the incident. I WARN THEM!!!. Kung ayaw nilang magkaproblema, huwag nilang sikilin sina Ma. Theresa Pangilinan at mga kasama.
Ma. Theresa Pangilinan is brave intelligent girl.
Thanks at meron bagong henerasyun na magbabantay sa mga
susunod na mga abusadong taga-gobyerno.
Ellen,
BASTOS? Sino ang MAS BASTOS? Ang TAONG MANDARAYA, SINUNGALING AT MANDARAMBONG NA GAYA NI GLORIA, OR YONG ESTUDYANTE NA SI PANGLINAN? Sino ang mas BASTOS?
Mas BASTOS ANG LOKOHIN MO ANG 85 MILYONG PILIPINO! NAPAKA BASTOS NON! NGAYON PA LANG AY MAY SISIDLAN NA SIYA SA HISTORY NG PILIPINAS KABILANG NA SIYA NI estrada, marcos at iba pang nauna sa kanya, Si GLORAING PANDAK ANG BASTOS!
NAPAKA BASTOS ANG MAGING PEKENG PANGULO! ALAM NIYO YAN!
NAKAPA BASTOS ANG MAGING SINUNGALING!
NAPAKA BASTOS ANG MAGING MANDARAMBONG!
NAPAKA BASTOS ANG MAGPAGAMIT KAY SIRAULO GONZALES(ANG ************** KAY SIRAULO GONZALES AY ISANG KARUMAL-DUMAL NA KASALANAN, TATAY NIYA NA OR LOLO SI SIRAULO GONZALES DI BA?)
MARAMING KABASTUSAN ANG GINAWA NI PANDAK SA MGA PILIPINO, ALAM NIYO YAN!
KAYAT SI GLORIANG PANDAK ANG BASTOS!
KAYA PAG NATULOY ANG CHA-CHA NI GLORIA, PATAY KANG PILIPINO KA! HABANG BUHAY ANG IYONG poverty, misery, and uncertainty, amid political instability.
KAYAT NO TO CHA-CHA NI GLORIA! DAPAT AY TANPA!
TANGALIN SI PANDAK NA SI GLORIA!
Thanks for continuing to check out this blog while I was on vacation.
Would anybody know latest on Ms. Pangilinan?
hi, theresa is currently working in makati but she is still very active in joining social actions in solidarity with the people’s struggle for justice in cavite.
hey people, we all need to grow up! What will happen to our country kung puro tayo away. Mr. Soliven is right for he is after stability of our nation. By the way, i heard that the German ambassador was retired by his government after Mr. Soliven’s attack. Who would you like to replace GMA? Noli? He or she should stand up and show us the patrotism that our nation badly needs.