Month: May 2011

Active blogger

Blogging in general

I realized how long since I’ve been truly active in the blogging world when I was sending PM’s back and forth with an old blogger friend. I don’t know much of what she’s telling me! I used to know everything that’s happening around the blogosphere. I used to be the one my blogger friends would go to for answers. But that is no longer the case.

I stopped being active when I started earning through blogging. I concentrated on it. I am still in touch with the handful of friends I chose from the so many I’ve made but I stopped keeping track of what’s going on in the blogosphere. I stopped joining blogging activities and events. I think I got tired from attending too many blogging events in the past so I just stopped. Don’t get me wrong. I tremendously enjoyed being active in blogging activities and events for close to three years. I enjoyed meeting other bloggers I only get to interact with when I am dropping in Entrecard or participating in a meme. I loved the feeling of being one with other bloggers. I chose between concentrating on earning and being active and the former won.

This morning I was thinking of being active once again. Of caring once more on what’s happening and what’s new. I kept thinking I would like to meet new bloggers once again and maybe make a new friend or two. It would be fun!

Hmm…

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PNOY Administration

Community issues

I don’t know if it’s just me or you also feel the same way… there’s NO CHANGE in Noynoy Aquino’s administration! His administration is like a mediocre version of his mom’s! I mean no disrespect to the former president but we all know the KAMAG-ANAK, INC during her time. In PNoy’s administration now, it’s KAIBIGAN, INC!

Every person who became his friend and that of his sister Kris is given a government post. Almost every individual who helped him win his presidential bid was made a government official. WTH is that?!? NO CHANGE at all! Utang na loob is still in effect! I understand this trait of ours Filipinos. We are grateful to persons who helped us along the way and we often carry with us a lifelong gratitude towards those persons. But to hear of almost every post filled with a friend with doubtful qualifications…

And then there’s his cabinet. It’s like he can’t even control his own cabinet! You hear of disagreements between the Mar Roxas and Vice President Jojo Binay groups. Is it even right for a losing VP contender like Mar Roxas to be given a very high position in PNoy’s cabinet when the latter already knows that the entry of the former will bring discord in his administration!

I am sure I am not the only one who voted for PNoy who is now rethinking the decision I made. Did I really choose the right person to lead the country in the next couple of years? Or did I just choose someone who will further bring down the country?!?

Tell me, have you seen any great change that PNoy brought to the country since the time he took his seat?

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All things come in 3s…

Society at large

There’s the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The previous Pope John Paul II was beatified. And then Osama Bin Laden was announced finally eliminated by the U.S. Forces at Pakistan.

I wasn’t one of the many people who waited with baited breath over the Royal Wedding. I watched it over the evening news. I just can’t see what good it would do to me if I gushed over the wedding. Fine, so the balding young prince got married. Big deal! Will poverty be eliminated? I don’t think so. Alright, I’ll relent a little. It did provide a momentary entertainment to everyone who watched it. But with what happened to Princess Diana, the cynic in me says it can also go that way for Kate.

On the other hand, I felt blessed with the beatification of Pope John Paul II. I saw him up close during the World Youth Day in 1995 wherein our school was one of those who sent delegations to the Quirino Grandstand. Seeing him up close was like being as close as one could get to the Lord. I swear, it felt that way to me. That changed something in me. And the pope’s beatification was more significant (especially to my religion) than that wedding.

And there’s the death of Osama Bin Laden. The notorious leader of the Al Qaeda group. An announcement surprised all of us last Monday. President Barack Obama himself announced it. Bin Laden was found in a rather big house in Pakistan with his wife and with the go signal of Obama himself, the house was attacked by the US Forces.

Where were you when these events happened?

Three big events during last weekend and early Monday.

Whew!

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