Update: Former Antique Governor Enrique Zaldivar passed away Friday. His remains lie in state at the Philippine Independence Church Cathedral on Taft Avenue (in front of PGH).
Update: Please see reflections of Precious L. Javier, widow of Evelio Javier, under comments.
When I passed by the statue of Evelio Javier in front of the provincial capitol in San Jose, Antique last Monday, I noticed he was holding a yellow ribbon.
Antique Governor Sally Perez said the yellow ribbon on Evelio’s statue was part of their tribute to former President Aquino. Rightly so because the heroic lives of Evelio and that of Sen. Benigno Aquino, Jr. and President Cory Aquino are inextricably twined.
Although I was born and grew up in Antique, I personally met Evelio Javier when I was covering the Cory Aquino for President Movement in 1985. He and Sally, on loan to CAPM from the University of the Philippines where she was in the staff of UP President Edgardo Angara, were active in soliciting one million signatures prodding Cory to run for president in the 1986 presidential snap election.
At that time, Evelio, former governor of Antique, had a pending protest against the election of Arturo Pacificador as member of the Batasan Pambansa in the May 1984 polls.
The 1984 election was bloody in Antique. On the eve of election, the leaders of Javier and Enrique Zaldivar, the opposition candidate for governor who won, were ambushed at the foot of Pampang bridge in the town of Sibalom by men suspected to be aligned with Pacificador. The tragedy became known as the “Pampang massacre.”
Evelio, like Ninoy Aquino, represented enlightened politics at the time when everything in the country revolved around the Marcos dictatorship. Against guns, goons and gold, Evelio, had an army of young people as his campaign volunteers. He would take the banca in visiting the province’s coastal towns. He was a Jesus-like figure as he waded to the shore to his adoring supporters.
As governor, he made Antiquenos, many of whom had developed inferiority complex because of the province’s reputation as land of the sacadas, rediscover their proud heritage by initiating the “Binirayan” festival.
Evelio eventually won his election protest after the 1986 People Power revolution. But it was too late. On Feb. 11, 1986, Evelio wasgunned down in front of the provincial capitol while he was overseeing the canvassing of votes in the snap polls between Cory Aquino and Marcos. Again, Pacificador, who was a Marcos loyalist was the suspect, but he was later acquitted.
The assassination of Evelio, done in broad daylight, gangland style, helped spark the outrage that led to first Edsa Revolution.
Sally and I were talking about the many similarities of Ninoy, Evelio and Cory’s funeral. The coffin being carried in a flatbed truck and the outpouring of grief by the people.
From Antique, Evelio’s remains were brought to Manila. At the Baclaran church, it was the first time when foreign diplomats addressed Cory, who led the mourners, “Mrs. President.”
I remember foreign embassies calling up Malaya, which was then providing the alternative to the Marcos-controlled establishment newspapers, patiently spelling out the ambassadors’ name in their condolences to Evelio. They wanted to put on record their governments’ outrage over the killing of Evelio.
At the funeral march of Cory two weeks ago, people along Sucat road were holding lighted candles. I was reminded of the funeral march of Evelio from Caticlan in Aklan to San Jose. I don’t remember anymore if it was a 15- hour procession. What I remember was people lining up the streets in the evening with lighted candles. It was awesome.
Evelio was buried Feb. 20 amidst calls of Cory for civil disobedience in protest of massive election fraud. We all rushed back to Manila. Feb. 22, then Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile and Gen. Fidel Ramos, chief of the Philippine Constabulary, declared their withdrawal of support from Marcos.
The rest is history.
Today, we remember the martyrdom of Ninoy Aquino. On Aug. 30, we pay tribute to our heroes, who dedicated their lives to the cause of peace and freedom for Filipinos.
A Country of Brave Heroes
But Governed By Tyrants!
Salamat sa pagpapa-alala Ate Ellen… wag din po nating kalimutan ang marami pang mga bayani natin nung panahon ng kadiliman ng Martial Law, na ‘di inalintana ang babala sa buhay nila dahil sa advocacies nila.
Please don’t forget Dr. Bobby dela Paz, Edgar Jopson, Lorena Barrios, Macli-ing Dulag.. remember their images in 1983 kasama sa mural nung funeral march ni Ninoy — yung Justice for Aquino, Justice for All (JAJA)? Let us not lay to waste their memories and their legacy as genuine advocates and martyrs for social and economic emancipation of the marginalized sectors.
ate ellen i know this is not relevant to the subject! pero i just want to point this one out! this is about erap running for presidency!
hindi kya payagan ni pandak(gma)na kumandidato si erap, para hatiin ang boto ng oposisyon? para lumaki ang chance ng manok nya? we know maraming mag pa file ng disqualification case laban kay erap sa s.c.! pero alam nating lahat na majority ng mahistrado ay appointed ng pangulo ntin who “rob” you!(the way japanese say “LOVE” in english.) at endorse by FG who robs u more! hindi kaya isa nnman itong isang stir ni pgma?
ano sa palagay mo? kami dito, hindi mapalagay!
Huwag na tayong paloko sa mga paliwanag ng administrasyong arroyo, maganda daw ang takbo ng ekonomiya ng Pilipinas pero bakit walang maibigay na trabaho sa mga Pilipino ang pamahalaang arroyo.
Mas mabuti pa ang China kahit 1.8 billion na ang population nila, nakapagbigay pa ng trabaho ang China sa humigit kumulang na 5,000 OFW, gayon wala pang 9 million ang population ng Pilipinas.
Kung talagang maganda ang takbo ng ekonomiya ng Pilipinas dapat walang Pilipinong nagtra-trabaho sa ibang bansa…
Tama ka, the Equalizer, ang daming bayani sa Pilipinas pero dahil sa ningas kugon mentality, walang nangyayari sa ibinuwis nilang mga buhay. Sayang!
Nakalulungkot gunitain ang hirap na dinanas ng mamamayan upang makamit ang kalayaan….SIMULA SA PANAHON NG KASTILA, NG HAPON AT SA KAMAY NG MGA GANID NA PILIPINO!
Dapat lang na alalahanin natin ang mga bayani, subalit huwag din nating kalimutan ang MGA TAKSIL NA PILIPINO na NAGSAMANTALA…NAGKANULO….AT NANGHUTHUT SA KABAN NG BAYAN!
Ilan sa mga ito ay sina Aginaldo at Macapagal na naging dahilan ng kamatayan ni Bonifacio. Ang pamilyang Marcos at Romualdez na ginawang alkansiya ang kaban ng bayan liban pa sa maraming makabayan na ipinapatay!
Isama na rin natin sina Erap at Tabako na nagnakaw at nangurakot din. AT NGAYON…..ANG PINAKAMATAPANG ANG HIYA, MANDARAYA, MAGNANAKAW AT SUWAPANG SA KAPANGYARIHAN na pamilyang ARROYO AT MACAPAGAL!
Sana kung maaari ay ipagpaggawa rin natin sila ng rebulto bilang paalala sa taong-bayan na huwag silang pamarisan at SUMPAIN ANG KANILANG PANGALAN!!!!
Ninoy, Cory, Evelio…namayapa na silang tatlo na hindi malinaw kung meron ngang nagdadala ng kanilang adhikain at handang mamatay gaya nila para sa bansa sa contemporary Pinas setting.
Gayunpaman, salamat sa kanilang lahat ng bayani buhat ng panahon ni Lapu-lapu hanggang kay Mrs. Cory Aquino….
Ang problema, ang daming bayani, hanggang remembrance lang lalo na kung national holiday ang date of birth at date nila, pero pag-alala sa adhikaing ipinaglaban nila lalo na iyon mga talagang ibinuwis ang mga buhay para lumaya ang Pilipinas gaya ni Andres Bonifacio, Antonio Luna, et al, huwag na iyong mga parang accidental heroes lang. Sayang talaga!
Mas OK kung i-encourage iyong mga potential at tunay na bayani gaya nina Sonny Trillanes at Jun Lozada ngayon. To them, I take my hats off! Saludo ako sa kanila!
Come to think of it. Dito sa Japan, ang talagang tinitingalang bayani lang ay iyong tinatawag namin na 47 ronin na nagpakita ng kanilang mga katapatan sa kanilang pinuno at adhikain, at si Saigo Takamori na nagpakita ng kaniyang katapangan sa pagtatanggol din ng kaniyang adhikain at pagmamahal sa tradisyon ng kaniyang bayan.
May rebolto siya sa Ueno na nang gustong buwagin ang matinding nationalism ng mga tao dito, tinakpan pa para di maka-impluwensiya ng maaaring gumaya sa kaniya.
In short, ang layunin ng paglalagay ng rebolto halimbawa ng mga inaakalang bayani ng bansa ay para matuto ang mga tao na mahalin at ipagtanggol ng buhay nila ang kanilang bansa.
Ngayon, may nagsabi naman na si Gloria Maldita balak pang magpagawa ng rebolto niya habang buhay pa siya. Abaw, ambisyosa! Gusto pag impluwensiyahin ang mga kababayan niyang maging sinungaling na magnanakaw pa. Ganoon ba?
Grizzy,
ok lang na gawaan ng rebulto si pandak para meron tayong MADURAAN, IHIAN AT SAMPALIN ARAW-ARAW.
Bawat plaza ay lagyan ng isa PARA IPAALALA SA MAMAMAYAN ANG KANYANG KAHAYUPAN. Isama na rin ang kanyang (A)SAWA AT MGA BIIK!!!!!!
there should be a history book written by journalists like you, ellen…not too academic yet simply worded and narrated para local people can easily understand and take them in. I live in the province and since then came to understand why education is not effectively accomplished. Our highschool graduates do not still know how to write a simple letter in english…nor filipino! Walang mga punctuation marks thanks to the culture of texting. If you ask them if they know how the Moslems are dressed, they will shrugged their shoulders. Geography? They even don’t know where our province is in the map! They’re being told to memorize Roman numerals instead…how on earth will that help them in life? unless they go to Rome? Historical figures? Social awareness? They won’t care…it’s all abstract. They’ll wait for who pays them better during election times. Reality bites. I’m talking about teachers, midwives, policemen, copra/coconut farmers, cargadores… they all listen to a certain language. money. You can count on one finger who is upright here. You wonder why the young people are so? Yet, i always hope. That’s why Ninoy, Cory and Evelio are heroes. They had lived on the “impossible dream” which eventually will be possible!
Tita Yuko
Ganyan talaga ang walang konsyensya at makapal ang mukha….
Malacanang has decided to build a monument for Cory.. and at the Luneta… They’re rather suspiciously too eager about it, I might say.
Watch out. This could be a trap to shoot down Cory’s image.
First, because Malacanang would want a controversy to emerge as to why Cory should have a monument at Luneta. Is she already a hero? If not, why a monument at Luneta? Etc. etc.
The pros and cons will be discussed. Expected to emerge out of that will be some negatives about Cory. Shoot down her halo, so to speak.
Let this not be done in haste. A monument for Cory can wait till Gloria exits. It is no honor to have a monument erected for Cory by a cheat, a liar and a thief.
Regarding about studying history maraming hindi tayo alam ang tungkol sa mga lalawigan sa pilipinas:
History
Nueva Ecija was created as a military comandancia in 1777 by Governor General Clavería, with the capital, Josean at Baler (now part of Aurora). It was formerly part of the province of Pampanga. From its humble beginning, its land area grew to cover almost the entire island of Luzon. Spanish Records in the Philippines recognizes 2 Spanish countries in the Pacific– Las Islas Filipinas and Nueva Écija. Poverty was the only reason why Nueva Ecija was not given recognition as a separate country from the Philippines by the King of Spain in 1840s. From 1777 to 1917, Nueva Ecija’s territory was however subdivided to give way to the creation of other provinces. The Province of Tayabas (now Aurora and Quezon) including Polillo Islands, the provinces of Palanan (now Isabela), Cagayan, the province of Nueva Vizcaya, the territory which became part of the Province of Quirino, and the province of Manila north of the province of Tondo in 1867, and the District of Morong (now Rizal) were among those created out of Nueva Ecija.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva_Ecija
It is no honor to have a monument erected for Cory by a cheat, a liar and a thief?
Kgg. Phil Cruz, i agree with you…bakit ka mo, kasi ganito yon, ang daming Pinoy na nagbuwis ng buhay para sa Bayan…pero di sila napapabilang sa naghaharing-uri sa ating lipunan, pero nasaan sila ngayon…nalimot na ang kanilang kabayanihan.
Ko mo ba si Tita Cory e napapabilang sa alta sociedad ng lipunan e ganoon na lang ba kabilis ang pagpuputong ng korona bilang Bayani.
Ang mga Bayani natin noong nagdaang panahon e nakibaka laban sa mga banyagang mananakop, pero sila…ano yong contribution nila, demokrasya?
My personal view, e di ko malirip yong logic ng mga Pinoy sa demokrasyang sinasabi nila after EDSA 1? Di ba lalong naghirap ang Pinoy after 1986 at lalong nagkawatak-watak ang halos lahat ng sektor sa ating lipunan.
Nasaan yong demokrasya na sinasabi nila? Wala akong nakikita sapagka’t ang nagpapatakbo o nagpapaikot sa ating bansa e yaong mga naghaharing-uri sa ating lipunan na nag-aanyong saviour ng ating bansa.
Ang Mendiola massacre during Tita Cory’s watch e isang bangungot yan ng demokraysa na sinasabi nila? Ang land reform during their time…ano ang nangyari WALA di ba? How many poor farmers ang nagbuwis ng buhay, nakibaka para magkaroon ng sariling lupa pero ano ang kanilang ginawa…WALA?
Ngayon…ko mo mga kinikilalang pamilya e ganito lamang kabilis magpasya na maging Bayani, how about yong mga nagbuwis ng buhay na simpleng mga Pinoy, sige nga?
Kaya, wala akong believe sa demokrasyang kanilang ipinagngangalandakan?
Ang tunay na demokrasya e ang pagiging mababang-loob ng mga aristocrats na Pinoy who lead our nation, but ang reyalidad… sila ang bunga ng ating mga paghihirap at pagbagsak ng moralidad ng ating bayan?
Maging maingat at wag padalosdalos sa pagpuputong ng KORONA sa kaninuman? Dapat patas ang gawad ng papuri at parangal sa mga Pinoy na nag-alay ng buhay para sa bayan?
Regarding about studying history maraming hindi tayo alam ang tungkol sa mga lalawigan sa pilipinas?
Igan Mumbaki, medyo mapapadami tayo ng inom ng kape niya kung ang history ng bawat lugar sa ating bansa ang pag-uusapan.
Tutal kung ang Pinoy naman e mapagsuri…sa mababang paaralan till high school e topic nayan, ang bottom-line nito e batay sa bawat isang Pinoy kung gaano sila ka interesado sa bawat paksain sa buhay.
Ang mahalaga e yaong NGAYON sapagka’t dito lumulundo ang kapalaran ng ating bayan, kasi pag history ang pinag-usapan e wala itong katapusan.
Nawa, e maging gabay lamang ito sa nakaraan at dapat harapin natin ang sa ngayon at darating na mga araw…dapat kasi mag move on na tayong mga Pinoy.
Dagdag kaalaman…kasi nga since noon till now nagbabago ang dami ng populasyon ng Pinas, look ito ang DATOS since 1799 till 2007.
Population of the Philippines
Census Years 1799 to 2007
Year Population Average annual rate of increase (%) Source of data
1799 1,502,574 – Fr. Buzeta
1800 1,561,251 3.91 Fr. Zuniga
1812 1,933,331 1.80 Cedulas
1819 2,106,230 1.23 Cedulas
1829 2,593,287 2.10 Church
1840 3,096,031 1.62 Local officials
1850 3,857,424 2.22 Fr. Buzeta
1858 4,290,381 1.34 Bowring
1870 4,712,006 0.78 Guia de Manila
1877 5,567,685 2.41 Census
1887 5,984,727 0.72 Census
1896 6,261,339 0.50 Prof. Plehn’s estimate based on census records.
1903 7,635,426 2.87 Census
1918 10,314,310 2.03 Census
1939 16,000,303 2.11 Census
1948 19,234,182 2.07 Census
1960 27,087,685 2.89 Census
1970 36,684,486 3.08 Census
1975 42,070,660 2.78 Census
1980 48,098,460 2.71 Census
1990 60,703,206 2.35 Census
1995 68,616,536 2.32 Census
2000 76,504,077 2.36 Census
2007 88,574,614 2.04 Census
Note: Population from 1799 to 1896 excludes non-Christians.
a – Includes the household population, homeless population, Filipinos in Philippine Embassies/Consulates and missions abroad and institutional population who are found living in institutional living quarters such as penal institutions, orphanages, hospitals, military camps, etc. at the time of the census taking.
Source: National Statistics Office.
“A monument for Cory can wait till Gloria exits. It is no honor to have a monument erected for Cory by a cheat, a liar and a thief.” — Phil C.
Naghu-hugas kamay na si Glorya pagkatapos niyang babuyin ang ating Bansa.
Pero dapat pigilin ng pamilya Aquino itong balak ng pekeng Pangulo. Tama ka Phil C. kasi peke rin yang monumento na yan kung sakali. Kung papayagan nila ito e di parang pinatunayan lang din ni Glorya na siya ay legal na Pangulo ng Pilipinas.
@Balweg
Napansin mo ba na Kapampangan origin ng mga native surnames sa Bataan,Bulacan at Rizal such as Pagdanganan,Gatlabayan and Cunanan……
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Di pwede si Gloria magpatayo ng rebulto ni Cory kasi isa siyang makapal ang mukha…..
@Balweg
Kaya ko inungkat ang mga history ng mga lalawigan ay para malaman muna kung ano talaga yung history ng mga tao bago husgahan…
A monument for Tita Cory?! Saka na lang pag-usapan after Gloria!
Yes, I agree, Phil..this is to shoot down the good image of Mrs. Aquino.
I hope the children of Tita Cory won’t fall into this trap by the most untrusted bitch of all time.
strike while the iron is hot, dito magaling si gma kaya dapat sa idea niya na yan ay buhusan ng tubig para lumamig.matapang din lamang ang hiya niya ay dapat ay monumento niya ang itayo niya at ng may madumog ang mga tao pag alis niya.sarap sigurong talian sa leeg kahit monumento man lang ay makabawi tayong mga pinoy.
koreksyon…”distrusted”. Ginawa ko ng computer si Gloria. Anyway, the bitch is de-pindot naman talaga ng kanyang Garci Generals.
norpil,
Gloria’s wiliness knows no bounds. She has no sense of decency and sensitivity.
Sariwang-sariwa pa ang pagyao ni Mrs. Aquino e pinaglalaruan na. Nuknukan ng kabastusan, ang panlasa ay para sa wine and caviar lang. Bitch talaga!
Kita ninyo nga, buhay pa ang animal, may pera ng nakalagay ang pagmumukha niya. Kunyari lang iyong rebulto para kay Cory, for the best homage the creep can give to Mrs. Aquino is to step down. Iyan ang mas mahalaga!
When I was in college, we did research of languages of the tribes in Luzon and Mindanao.
Mumbaki, the Spaniards may have designated this and that area as part of a bigger area that they claimed as their territory, but it does not mean that the people occupying those territories were kapampangans as you seem to emphasize. Truth is I don’t believe it.
Over in Aurora, we met a lot of those Dagat-dagatans majority of whom still populate the area. They are Aetas who do not speak kapampangan, FYI.
Nueva Vizcaya was also populated by the Ilongots, and other tribes until the area was opre@/ ened by the Spaniards for migration by the Ilocanos like the Padillas, majority of whom are from La Union.
Philippine history is surely a field that should be explored but what a sorry mess with not so many people able to do real researches especially now with resources being squandered instead of being granted to real, honest to goodness scholars, and the records like those at the Manila Archives even now open for thief and robbery by those appointees of the criminals at the palace by the murky river,
…was opened by the Spaniards…
Sadyang napakaiksi talaga ng memorya ng mga Pilipino.
Gaya ng kapatid ni Evelio Javier, si Cong. Exequiel Javier, na alam na alam na ang buhay ng kapatid niya ay inalay upang lumaban sa rehimeng mapang-abuso sa kapangyarihan, mapagsamantala sa yaman ng bansa, mapang-api sa maliliit, at mapanupil sa karapatan ng mamamayan. Mga katangiang isinuka nina Ninoy, Cory, at Evelio ngunit siya namang muling isinasabuhay ng makapal ang mukha’t matakaw ang sikmurang si Gloria Arroyo na sa halip na labanan ay kinakampihan pa ni Cong. Ex.
Nabale-wala lang ang sakripisyo ni Evelio dahil ang kapatid niya mismo ang bumliktad sa pinaglaban nito. Naiintindihan ko kung sipsip si Sally Perez kay Putot, dahil ang ama nila ni ex-Gov. Ike Zaldivar ay dating executive secretary ni Pres. Dadong, ang poor boy from Lubao na neg-retire sa Forbes Park. Pero si Ex?
Sinulat ni Gov. Enrique Zaldivar para sa kanyang predecessor na si Evelio Javier:
You hit the nail on the head. Hindi sa breeding. Nasa tao ang gawa.
I don’t buy the argument that Noynoy and Mar are the fruits of good leaders…?
Nice argument Kgg. Dodong, ang naghaharing-uri sa ating lipunan can create or make a Heroes based on their criteria, but the problem is…nasaan yong tunay na pagiging Bayani?
Nowadays, alam natin na ang mga nasa alta sociedad ang laging may boses at kayang paikutin ang media o sino pa man. They can manipulate maging sinuman siya sa tulong din ng kanilang mga kauri, at ang mga pobreng Pinoy e sunod-sunuran lamang.
Sinong pobreng Pinoy ang nakapag-tanghal ng sarili nilang Bayani…di ba WALA? Ang karamihan na nagbuwis ng buhay during Marcos watch e napasama na lang sa lapida, but itong mga known personalities na nakikibag-bangayan sa rehime ang siyang focus ng attention, sapagka’t ang mass media, cyber media et. al. ang silang gumagawa ng kwento.
I met a Ilocano friend and told me about the story of Ninoy Aquino, nagtrabaho siya sa mga Aquino and sad to say his tele-nobela about his experience sa tunay na buhay ni Ninoy.
Ang wika niya sa akin, bakit nila ginawang hero si Ninoy? So, i can not answered him kasi nga i don’t know him personally?
But people…ang lakas ng emosyon upang papaniwalain sa isang bagay na di nila alam ang tunay ng istorya ng buhay ng isang tao.
Ok, granted…ayaw pulitika between an oppositionist and administration so that’s personal, pero yong yayakapin natin na nang dahil sa kabayanihan na winiwika e accountable sino di ba yong kanilang personal enemies NOT the Filipino people.
Kaya malaking palaisipan sa akin about the degree of Heroism ng isang Pinoy this generation compare noong nakaraang dekada ng ating mga tinaguriang Bayani?
Sino ba ang nakibaka upang muling maibalik ang Demokrasya sa ating bansa? Di ba yaong mga nagbuwis ng buhay agaist Marcos regime at yaong mga nabubuhay pa like Congressman Saturt Ocampo, Hon. Cong. Crispin Beltran at iba pa na talagang nakibaka laban sa diktadura.
Marami sa ngayon ang tunay na Bayani…they are still alive and kicking…tulad nina Bro. Eddie Villanueva, but God used him to feed His flocks na di kayang sustinihan ng Simbahan; Mayor Jojo Binay…pinaunlad ang Makati as business centre; at marami pang iba.
Kgg. Dodong, kung kakayanin din nating Masang Pilipino na itaguyod ang ating Inang Bayan…dapat NEVER natin iaasa ang kapalaran ng ating Bansa sa mga naghaharing-uri sa ating lipunan sapagka’t sila ang ugat ng lahat ng kahirapan at pagkakawatak-watak ng Pilipino.
Ang tunay na istorya sa likod ng kamera ay yaong mga nasa alta sociedad ang nagbabangayan upang pagpartihan ang pera ng Bayan?
Ginagamit lamang nila ng Masang Pilipino sa kanilang vested interest…ANO YON? Ang protektahan sa TOTOO LAMANG ang kanilang mga kayamanan at illigel activities.
Ang dami nila…kaya isa itong mafia na siyang salot sa ating lipunan, kung kaya nila bakit di natin kakayanin…basta magkaisa ang taong-bayan at magkaunawaan sa iisang adhikain, ang mapaglingkuran ng TAPAT ang bayan at kapwa-Pilipino.
Ang balakid sa pag-unlad ng ating bansa e yang mga LINGKOD-BULSA sa ating lipunan, kita mo…di ba bangkarote ang Kabang-yaman ng Pinas pero sila e nagsisiyaman.
Isang example…si madam gloria, for 9-years in Malacanang…halos more than 140M na ang PISO? Pero magkano ba ang sweldo niya, di ba kulang pa sa kanyang kapritsuhan sa buhay?
Kung pantay ang pagpataway ng batas sa ating bansa e dapat matitino na ang takbo ng kukote ng mga Pinoy, ang kaso sila mismo ang suwail sa batas na kanilang ipinangangalandakan?
Kaya tama yong sabi-sabi, “Magnakaw ka ng konti…kulong ang bagsak mo, but magnakaw ka ng milyones o bilyones…di ka makukulong sapagka’t may pangbayad ka sa mga abugago?”
TUMPAK o mali?
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When I was in college, we did research of languages of the tribes in Luzon and Mindanao.
Mumbaki, the Spaniards may have designated this and that area as part of a bigger area that they claimed as their territory, but it does not mean that the people occupying those territories were kapampangans as you seem to emphasize. Truth is I don’t believe it.
Over in Aurora, we met a lot of those Dagat-dagatans majority of whom still populate the area. They are Aetas who do not speak kapampangan, FYI.
Nueva Vizcaya was also populated by the Ilongots, and other tribes until the area was opre@/ ened by the Spaniards for migration by the Ilocanos like the Padillas, majority of whom are from La Union.
Philippine history is surely a field that should be explored but what a sorry mess with not so many people able to do real researches especially now with resources being squandered instead of being granted to real, honest to goodness scholars, and the records like those at the Manila Archives even now open for thief and robbery by those appointees of the criminals at the palace by the murky river,
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Grizzy,
Sorry if you misunderstood what I was trying to say
I discovered similarities or between Cagayan Valley Languages including Isnag and Central Luzon languages(such as Kapampangan),I think that is why they used to be the same province,I will research more on this matter.
The Ilongots are closely related to Pangsinan according to the classification of linguists,I always wondered how they got there in the first place…
Regarding Bulacan,Bataan and Rizal being Kapampangan in the prehispanic era,I have allot of evidences such as documents to prove that and statistical figures such as surnames…
sorry for the typo it’s pangasinan not pangsinan…
There is a tribe in Rizal province that speaks a Kapampangan related language they are called Remontado Agta or Sinauna,they are protesting against the building of Laiban Dam in Quezon Province which is a project of the Dorobo..
If Laiban Dam(which is on the border of Quezon Province and Rizal,the Kaliwa and Kanan Rivers) is built the Remontado Agta or Sinauna will be displaced.
I don’t see any similarity between Tagalog and Kapampangan, so I still don’t believe the theory that the Tagalogs came from the Kapampangans, or that they were of one tribe, thus, the existing animosity between the kapampangans and the tagalogs for instance even now.
There are lots of theories on the origins of the languages in the Philippines and they need to be explored as yet. UP has done a lot of researches on these languages and dialects in fact, and the theories promulgated by so-called experts have to be debated and researched as yet.
I have a professor who has been doing researches on the Itbayat and has tried in fact to make comparisons of Philipines languages including Kapampangan. He is in his late 70’s and hopefully, still alive.
I have not been in contact with him for a long, long time. He was teaching at Himeji University until he retired from the said university. I may just as well meet him one of these days if he is still alive and ask about his researches on the language of Pampanga.
One thing I am sure of though is that Tagalog is a different language, not a dialect, from Kapampangan. Ilocano is another language, and if there are similarities, it is only because of the Spanish or English words adopted in the said languages.
I find in fact a lot many Spanish words in Ilocano, but that does not make Ilocano a dialect of Spain. Truth is that when I forget a word in Spanish when I do translation/interpretation for the court in Japan, I just think of the word in Ilocano, and most of the time, there is the Spanish word that I want to say.
Sinunod niya (Cory) ang bawa’t dikta ni Cardinal Sin, tama man o mali. —#33, Dodong
Tama yang sinabi mo. Si Cory ay nakipag sabwatan kay Sin at NPA para patayin ang “isang grupo ng mga tao” na gusto nilang buwagin sa pamamagitan ng pagpatay ng mga kaanib sa nasabing grupo. Noong presidente si Aquino ay nagtayo pa yan ng sarili nyang army at ang tawag pa nga noon ay “yellow soldiers.” Ang purpose nito ay para patayin ang “isang grupo ng mga tao.”
May mga napatay silang mga kaanib ng grupong ito pero lumaban yung “isang grupo ng mga tao” na yon. Natakot sila Cory, Sin, NPA, at yellow soldiers nila dahil ng lumaban yong grupo ay mas maraming napatay sa NPA at yellow soldiers at baka hindi maitago ni Cory at Sin sa media yong murderous operation nila.
Wala na mang ginagawang masama yong isang grupo na to. Hindi naman pinapakialaman ang gobyerno ni Cory. Pero galit na galit si Cory at Sin sa grupo na to dahil siguro naiingit dahil sa tagumpay na narating ng grupong ito.
Tama na kasi yang idinodoldol yang si Noynoy Aquino na tatakbo sa Pagka-Pangulo o Bise. Ni wala namang nagawa yang taong yan ang puhunan ay anak lang siya ng kanyang mga magulang. Ayaw na nga niya pero gusto nong iba … ano ba yan. Tantanan na natin yan …. lumalabas na ang mga baho ng mga Aquino … patahimikin na natin yang pamilyang yan. Ang problema natin ay yang Glorya na yan. Magagaling yong mga alagad ng unanong yan kita niyo oposisyon pinagaaway-away. Kailangang maging solido tayo para maigupo natin yang mga Demonyong nakatira sa Malakanyang.
Gloria is threatened by Cory’s popularity at present. I smell a sinister plan to destroy the Aquinos and divide tiyanak’s foes. Mga kaibigan, do not fall into this trap.
Dodong, I am referring to the comment against the Aquino family and not to Noynoy only.
Remonde, the One-Who-Froths-in-the-Mouth(literally) does it again. Listen to him:
“I think there are many things that President Arroyo and the Aquinos have in common. I mean adherence to the ideals of democracy, good governance, public service, preferential option to the poor and the President has continued to focus and dedicate her efforts towards this end and towards these goals.”
My gawd! I hear 70% of the nation in thundering laughter !
Conspiracy theories – still alive and well. Well it’s still up to individual’s own call. But conspiracy theories sell, just look at Dan Brown.
Noynoy was correct when he disappproved the SUROT’s plan to build a munument for tita Cory at the Luneta. The Aquino family was very correct when they rejected the SUROT’s sponsored recognitions/honors for Tita Cory.
Many of us here will agree that honors/recognitions from
this administration are useless and an insult to the recepient. Meaningful and honorable recognition will
come. The family, we should wait.
Instead let us focus sa pagpapatalsik sa rehiming ito, burahin natin sa sirkulasyon ang SUROT sa palasyo at lahat nang mayka-ugnayan sa sa kanya.
WHen media was attacked by the illegal occupants of the palasyo, the media could have initiated a BOYCOT on the palace. Media could have refused airtime and space until this arrogant public servants and spoke persons ay humingi ng tawad at paumanhin.
Mon Tulfo’s inquirer article:
“PRESIDENT Gloria has ordered a monument built for the late democracy icon, former President Cory, at Rizal Park in Manila.
After depriving Cory of bodyguards when she was alive, GMA has suddenly realized that she should be immortalized in a monument.
When GMA steps down, she can become the No. 1 promoter of a company that sells plastic products.”
tupperware? orocan? alatone plastics????
puede ring endorser si queen gloria ng crocodile farm, o ng recycled waste products, o ng malabanan pozo negro hehehe
NO TO TRAPOS 2010!
bakit naman ilalagay yong monomento ni cory sa luneta? ang luneta ay para kay rizal lang.
si ninoy ang monomento nya ay sa airport dahil duon sya napatay. si cory ay dapat ang monomento nya ay sa edsa dahil duon nya ginawa ang people power at coup d’etat kay erap.
si pandak dapat ilagay ang monomento nya sa camp abu bakar sa mindanao at duon din sya ma firing squad.
@grizzy
I did not say that Tagalogs came from Kapampangans,the original tagalog language came from Batanguenyos what I said Bulakenyos,Nueva Ecijanos,Rizalenyos and Bulakenyos who speak tagalog used to be Kapampangan that is what the old documents say and statistical data supports it,and the tagalog they speak is influenced by Kapampangan,Batanguenyos even say that those from the north bastardized their language.
The word Tayo which means us came from Ilocano or Pangasinan originally….
@Dodong
Kung hindi sinakop ng Espanyol ang pilipinas at namuslim ang archipelago natin ang maghahari sa Luzon ay Kapampangan at sa Mindanao naman ay Maranao.
Sa Visayas sinong maghahari? ang mga Cebuano ba o illonggo kung di nasakop ng espanyol?
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Sa totoo lang ayaw ng mga bangsamorro ang federalism ang gusto ng majority sa kanila is either hiwalay or part ng centralized state natin and they want the majority of people in Luzon and Visayas to be muslims as well as much as possible…
Bonifacio just followed the footsteps of his ancestor,Tarik Soliman who wants to free our archipelago and to kick the spanish out…
Angara,Rabbit con Pandak and Abalos are both double crossers na makasarili manang mana sa mga traydor na ninuno,Itong si Bayani Fernando proud din doon na kamag-anak daw niya si Rabbit con Pandak….
Buti naman at di pinansin ng mga Aquino si Rabbit con Pandak….
Itong si Rabbit con Pandak mahilig magpilit na siya ang magpagawa ng statue ni Cory,the truth is she does not deserve to be the one to do it…
Sana pagnilitis na si Gloria isama yang si FVR para magsama sila sa kulungan.
Got hacked.
seguro mas maganda makaroon ang filipinas ng religion na combination ng muslim at catolico.total,halos parehas lang sila.yong mga kabit ko magiging legal na.at saka yong muslim bro puede sumamba sa simbahang catolico at vice-versa.
dati noong panahon,parehas lang ang paraan sa pagsamba ng dalawang religion na ito.iniba lang ni constantine the great dahil na pansin niya hindi makapag concentrate ang kanyang mga kawal lalo na pag mayroon operation sa overseas.
dapat lang magkaroon ng statue si Tita Cory sa Luneta pag wala na si gloria.hindi lang dapat si Tita Cory,lahat ng ating mga bayani,mula kay Lapu-lapu.
There are two things I’d like to discuss here in this blog:
Regarding August 21, 1983: I really wanted to know who shot Ninoy. I read in an earlier post in this blog that someone mentioned a 1983 issue of Mr. and Ms. Magazine (dated sometime in September, but I’m unsure if the magazine was published monthly or weekly) in one of his or her comments. The assassination of Ninoy was featured, but there was some person carrying a handgun. Maybe the killer was from inside the plane! Could he be a saboteur? Could he be a serial killer, just like the Zodiac!? Maybe we can check on the list of the passengers on the China Airlines flight that Ninoy boarded. (hint: I’m going to be 18 on March 12 of next year, therefore I only know little about the Ninoy assassination)
Regarding National Heroes’ Day: Today is a right time to seize the opportunity of discussing the Filipino heroes of ages past, such as our National Hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. Let us remember why he gave up his life to serve the Filipino people.
Mr. Kim Quilinguing, a close friend of mine, shares his insight on why we Filipino people hardly know our heritage. Here’s the link to his blog post I’m talking about: http://kimquilinguing.multiply.com/journal/item/74/We_Filipinos_Hate_History
I’m currently working on an independent film project which is a modern adaptation of Jose Rizal’s novels. I have been working on it since the week after my 14th birthday, when there was this Noli Me Tangere play (organized per section; project namin iyon para sa Filipino III) that I and my HS section participated in.
You may want to contribute to my film project for free, which is appropriately titled “Cosme: Ang Ibarra sa Globalisadong Mundo”, which tells about the positive and negative effects of globalization in our country, interlaced with tidbits of the Philippines’ history as a independent republic and current events. It would be an alternate history wherein the Third Republic of the Philippines still exists in the present day, (either Magsaysay survives the plane crash, Macoy never elected for a second term, or both). Money is not an issue here, since we will be using the bayanihan mentality.
Regarding the film project: For the first two or three years of my film project I am working on it personally. Then I sought help from few of my childhood friends.
Why do we place heroes on pedestals only to pelt them with muck? Nobody is perfect. What is essential is the heroism – be it brief as a flash or the drawn out shine and wane of a long life.
changed my gravatar. testing
cool avatar ms. ellen…
parang japorms lang with matching eyeglasses cool
tagairaya – August 22, 2009 5:40 pm
Why do we place heroes on pedestals only to pelt them with muck? Nobody is perfect. What is essential is the heroism – be it brief as a flash or the drawn out shine and wane of a long life.
Siguro sa isip at galit ng mga namumukol na mga taong ito, kung hindi nagpakabayani ang ating mga bayani at naiba ang kasaysayan ng Pilipinas, hindi sana naipanganak si gloria at wala sana tayong minumura ngayon.
BTW, tagairaya, are you by any chance from Batanes ?
It was Vidal who ordered all priests under his jurisdiction not to celebrate mass for jun lozada when the latter visited Cebu during his provincial tour about the ZTE NBN scandal. Super tuta ni pandak yan !
” Noynoy should be judged based on his performance and not simply on his being the only son of his revered parents” is a subtle way of saying that Noynoy is a sure winner because of the Cory phenomenon and he must not be allowed to run for a higher office because he is a threat to Gloria. Dito nagpagamit si Vidal !
MKDL Studio: Nice to see a young person like you take interest in Ninoy’s assassination. I don’t claim to know a lot about this event but here’s what I can share you, only as a bystander.
If you have a chance to see the video, take a close look at how several of the police who escorted Ninoy out of the plane going down the stairways. You can hear the shots rang right there. To make the story short, one of the assassins was in that police escort. There was no way that poor guy Galman was the shooter even if he was a “sharpshooter”, not at the distance he was positioned with several passengers disembarking. Besides, if he was the assassin, he would had been perched in a secluded area to carry his mission, not on a wide open space such as the tarmac. Galman was to me, the real patsy all along. But Marcos’s henchmen had to cover up their crimes so they had to kill someone.
JFK’s assassination was no different. Jack Ruby had to kill Oswald to silence him. Did Ruby really died of Lung Cancer before his trial began? I don’t know.
Only those people involved in these killings knows the answers. BUT, even if real witnesses and triggermen comes out in the closet to spill out the beans – they will all be viewed as liars and their credibilities, motives will be more scrutinized than their truthful version. And that my friend is mournful to world history.
This is my personal take, you certainly can make your own speculation.
“If Laiban Dam(which is on the border of Quezon Province and Rizal,the Kaliwa and Kanan Rivers) is built the Remontado Agta or Sinauna will be displaced ”
Mumbaki, ito bang sinabi mo eh sa Tanay Rizal? Meron dung mga katutubo na ang tawag namin eh “Dumagat” at ang salita nga eh me hawig sa kapampangan. Iyun ba yung Remontado Agta or Sinauna?
A friend, Fr. Danny Tabuyan, sent me these reflections by Precious L. Javier, widow of Evelio Javier:
@Baguneta
Yes,you’re correct.
Ellen, I just remembered. It was in the early eighties when my outfit was contacted by an organization of Antiqueños in Metro Manila to provide sound system and mobile disco for their annual party at the Pasay City Sports Complex in Derham Park. I remember that when a politician entered the gym (I was later told it was the governor), there was a commotion and the next thing I saw was a man wielding a knife was carried out and taken into the police station just at the next building. City Hall is a few meters south. They continued to party though they had to keep all the lights on, drowning my disco lighting.
Did you witness this? Was it Evelio or was it Zaldivar who escaped what was apparently an assassination try? This was 1982-83.
Hi Tongue, let me try. Other Antiqueños can correct me, if they have a more accurate info. I hope Precious Javier reads this.
If it was 1982-83, it must have been Evelio.
I was not in Antique during those years. I was here in Manila.But I was not attending parties by Antique organizations.
I do concur with others’ comments regarding Sen. Noynoy not riding on his parents’ achievements and popularity in order to attain success in next year’s polls. He should obviously “Be your own man,” as declared by Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Gary Olivar, and really try to build his political platform based on his own personal achievements, using his own distinct identity, thus stepping out of his parents’ shadow in doing so. Professor Olivar also berated other politicians who seem to be capitalizing on the memory of Ninoy and Cory Aquino, proclaiming that they should be ashamed of themselves especially if they had never been Aquino supporters in the past, “Yung ibang pulitiko dyan through the years hindi pa nga pinapansin si Tita Cory. Nung namatay biglang nagsilabasan yung kanilang mga t-shirt na dilaw. Di naman yata tama.”
“Be your own man” – Olivar to Noynoy. In other words, Noynoy para matalo ka, huwag kumapit sa mga magulang mong sobrang popular.
“Tayo” is not Ilocano, Mumbaki. I know they say, “sikami” for “us” in Ilocano.
I don’t think you’re doing the Ilocanos service identifying them with the kapampangans or even the Pangalatoks even when a lot many Ilocanos were encouraged to populate Pangasinan during the Spanish and American occupations.
I should know, because we have relatives all over the Philippines, even in Mindanao, all relatives of my mother from Ilocos Norte.
…any service…
With my knowledge of Ilocano and Tagalog, Mumbaki, somehow, I am able to understand Cebuano and some Visayan languages, too, but Kapampangan, I can’t understand it at all unless someone mixes it with Tagalog or English. Thus, I doubt if it is at all related especially to Ilocano. Baka pa nga Koreano, puede pa! 😛
Grizzy I don’t mean to associate Ilocanos and Kapampangan,um,grizzy mali pala ako the term tayo/sitayo/datayo/kadatayo is the 1st person plural inclusive in ilocano.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilokano_grammar
Apparently napunta na rin po ang word na tayo sa national language ng pilipinas sorry po sa mistakes ko….
Yes,tama ka doon na inencourage na mag populate ang mga ilocano doon sa Pangasinan at Cagayan Valley because there are surnames na ilocano doon sa Pangasinan at Cagayan Valley pero walang apelyidong tagalog or native surnames na common sa mga Batangueño sa Rizal,Nueva Ecija,Bataan at Bulacan kung meron man rare halos puro Kapampangan surnames ang nakikita ko’ng native surnames dito sa area namin sa Rizal,inuungkat ito ng mga kalahi nina Ermita and Aguinaldo sabi nila binababoy daw namin ang lengwahe nila….
Pag napupunta sa amin ang mga taga-cavite,batangas and those provinces in the south pinagtatawanan namin ang accent matigas ang dila it we do have some anomimity with those in the south(laguna,batangas,south quezon(lucena area) and cavite compared with Kapampangans iyon ang nakikita ko…
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Sorry kung na-o-off topic ako dito,I am really sorry pero i am just stating my opinions regarding the dugong aso stereotype issue…..
This will be the last time I will talk about this in this forums…..
i mean blog not forums…
I really don’t understand why the kapangpangans deserve such a reputation, i.e., as in comments past and present by Yuko and another commenter here.
Is it because that many kapangpangans served as mercenaries to the American invaders against “fellow Filipinos” at the turn of the last century?
To my mind, one can never really generalise — I know kapangpangans who are as patriotic to Pinas as the next patriot here.
Gloria is a quirk of nature and she would have been true to herself, a smug bitch, a lying and cheating toad, a thief of the lowest category, kapalmuks as any tom dick and harry of a dirty politician whether she was a kapangpangan or not.
One of my Dad’s fightingest lieutenants and comrades during the 2nd WW who fought the japanese invaders as valiantly as any Filipino guerilla was a Kapangpangan — his family name was Laxamana (am not quite sure of the spelling of his family name). Another one of Dad’s closest kapangpangan friends who was honest and humble was a lawyer called Lapuz and was loyal to the very end to my family.
Ang kahanga hanga sa akin sa mga Kapampangan ay kung paano nila naipanalo ang isang hindi politiko sa dalawang higanteng politiko sa lalawigan nila bilang gobernador. May ibig sabihin ito kung anong uri ng mga tao ito or at least their political maturity as a voters. Sa lalawigan kaya ninyo maalis kaya ninyo ang mga alam nating yumaman lang sa puwesto eh dinidiyos pa rin ninyo? Bilang lang sa daliri natin ang mga punong panglalawigan ang karapat dapat mamuno. Alam natin ito. Sabihin na ninyo gusto ninyong sabihin kay Panlilio.