Ano sasakay kpb?
Sulong na!!
What I really want to know from the Presidential Candidates is this: who will your cabinet members be? I’m sure they all have an idea by now. If I narrow it down to the issues that matter most to me- then the question will be whittled to “Who will you appoint as Dep Ed Secretary and who will run the DOH.” That should be easy enough. Those are two non-volatile agencies that provide a need that is steady despite political sways. Health and Education. Non-controversial, very little argument there.
When I vote for a President, I realize that I don’t vote for JUST HIM solo. He doesn’t come solo. I vote for his entourage, his funders, who he may owe favors to, his spouse even (for imagine the visibility of the spouse all through out), I also vote for his closest friends and allies, relatives too yes. Parang sa kasal yan ng Pinoy. Kasama pamilya. Pati aso.
I recently deduced that the candidates will never really name their future cabinets BEFORE they are elected. The ‘promise’ of these positions are the fattest carrots that they dangle before the eyes of those who go all-out in campaigning, funding, supporting and defending him during the campaign season. Okay not always- but it is a fine tool to lure funders in to commit cash & loyalty.
So if I had my way- I just want to know - Mr Future President - can you name me already some people who will be in your cabinet, so I know who will head the institutions that will directly affect me and the advocacies I work on. If there’s someone brave enough to answer that - with names and reasons why, if the candidate can tell me why he’s appointing who and give me experts in the fields of these institutions - then I can consider my vote to be truly informed - and his victory valid.
I always thought those were the goals of a formidable election season: an informed vote and a valid victory.
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| — | Gang Badoy, Rock Ed Radio. 29 January, 2010. (via gangbadoy) (via saabmagalona) |
Got more hate mail today from Gibo fans. I love how Julie said it was unprofessional of me to complain via Twitter because Gilbert Teodoro didn’t show up despite repeat confirmations. Wait wait wait - it was unprofessional of ME to complain about someone else’s (team’s) unprofessionalism? Really.
A certain Gabby unfollowed me on Twitter and publicly announced it because she was offended that I said “The next Presidential candidate who guests here will certainly have first dibs on picking on Gibo for not showing up on this show. Haha.” She took it as me encouraging people to pick on her candidate. A total misinterpretation of my tweet, of course. It was just a mere narration of a possible unfortunate (for and caused by Gibo’s team) situation. But I love that demonstration of fierce loyalty of the Gibofandom! I envy it, in fact because I don’t feel as strongly for any of the candidates. I tweeted her back and told her how much I appreciated her feeling so strongly about her candidate. I am sure Gibo is her personal choice and not merely an inherited one. Despite.
Then a certain Brian said “It’s not classy to complain about someone who chose to flake on your show.” - oh sweetheart, wait - let’s not talk about ‘class acts’ tonight, not when I got the ace on this deal and the word “flake” is on his dealt hand. I need to explain that Rock Ed Radio is (after all) a show and I am bound by my responsibility to be accountable for whatever I’ve broadcasted. Since I aggressively promoted this episode, it is my duty to our team’s credibility to ‘just-as-aggressively’ explain why we weren’t able to keep our word. And you know why.
I am not anti-Gibo, truth is I don’t have a vote yet. I really prepared for that interview - I researched through court sources on his work as a lawyer for the case of Eduardo Cojuangco vs coconut farmers (yes, that Coco Levy case), I read about his work as Konsehal, as a Representative of the surrounding district of Hacienda Luisita, asked some of my relatives from Mindanao about his work with the DND and the Maguindanao situation, talked to people I know from the NDCC, emailed a couple of people who I thought went to Harvard around the same time he was there - PLUS I aggressively promoted his episode online. I thought that was a generous offering of valid air time to a candidate because he is -after all - vying for votes.
I was looking forward to talking to your man, (we’ve met before) I’m open even to be convinced - I still am.
Rock Ed Radio lost an interview that’s true - but we’re not the ones who need airtime and we’re not the ones who need votes. Both parties have cut the losses. Instead of writing to each of you via email, I decided to just post this and carry on. Perhaps re-schedule his guesting if his team still finds time and if we still have a vacant Thursday night what with the elections 99 days away.
And please, Armand, next time you send me hate mail - at least impress me with a better argument than “Too bad for you he think Studio 23 is better to go to than Jam 88.3!!!!” Aside from that faulty subject-verb agreement deal you got going there, we air our shows on NU107 now.
We moved back to NU right after the twin typhoons of 2009.
One of you (Teri) reasoned that Gibo is in demand and understandably very busy. Okay I understand, I know what days with 8 speaking engagements feel like, too. I just thought since he’s a candidate for this land’s top spot, his team would be more careful and he’d be more - I don’t know - more ‘showing up?” It’s still the campaign time, the season when the best best best best best foot is forward. Makes one wonder what it may be like when he no longer needs to woo.
Last - someone tweeted, this isn’t directly an email for me, it was a Tweet addressing Rock Ed Radio so I’m not obliged to name her —- I’ll just quote — “too bad for @rockedradio coz Gibo stood up..oh.. i mean cancelled his appointment wd dem. tsk, better luck nxt tym.. if der will be..” You know, it didn’t use to require luck for us to have guests show up. It used to just take a proper invitation, a yes, and both parties keeping their word. Thanks for that tweet though, it sounded hopeful.
Look, I am disappointed too, obviously. I do hope there’s a chance to reschedule this episode. I’d like to interview him. I’ve seen him in action, Gibo gives good interviews -at least when he shows up.
I’ll wait. Maybe they’ll send word again soon.
I’m not going to apologize for this post, I’m the one who had to hold up a 2-hour live show that lost a guest a mere few hours before air-time. This is not a pot shot, this is a reply to badly written hate emails. If this sounds like bashing to you, I’ll be clear now - it isn’t. Because if and when I bash - you will know.
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| — | Gang Badoy, Rock Ed Radio. 30 January 2009 (via gangbadoy) |
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Breaking up is hard to do
Posted on January 23, 2010 by jimparedes [e]
HUMMING IN MY UNIVERSE By Jim Paredes (The Philippine Star) Updated January 24, 2010 12:00 AM
The APO held a press conference a few days back to promote our upcoming Valentine show. It was billed as APO’s last Valentine gig and it will be held on Feb. 13 at the SMX venue in the Mall of Asia.
At the presscon, we decided to finally announce that the APO Hiking Society as an entity would be winding down and doing the last shows of our 40-year career. By end of May, APO will stop performing, recording or being a showbiz entity altogether.
There was a deafening silence in the room. The media was speechless. At first we thought that there was no interest in the announcement, thus the silence. But the barrage of questions and emotions expressed that came after indicated that the announcement we had just made was more of a shocker than a sleeper.
Yes, Boboy, Danny and I are calling it quits. But before we do, we have a few more shows to do here and abroad. So if you are an APO fan, or if you’ve never watched us, now is the time to do so. We will have several farewell shows towards the end of May, most likely in small venues. We don’t want to be stressed out doing a big-venue extravaganza since we really want to enjoy our last few shows.
In the first two days after we announced that we were disbanding, I received close to 600 tweets, Facebook notices, and e-mails expressing regret, respect, dumbfoundedness, admiration, sorrow and other similar emotions. They were not any different from what we in the APO are feeling as well.
So why are we splitting up?
Ironically, we made our announcement at a time when many people are telling us that, lately, we have been doing the best concerts ever in our career of 40 summers. We have been on a roll these past five years. While we have managed to keep the older generation (meaning people our age) interested in us, our current audiences have had a lot of people watching us for the very first time. Kids are discovering us, digging our music and enjoying our shows. And we are more comfortable than ever performing together. Musically, we are tight and our stage rapport is wonderfully intuitive and smooth.
Forty years is a long time and as much as we have projected unity all throughout or career, we have also had our differences. Monolithic as our triumvirate may seem, Danny, Boboy and I are actually very different people who like doing different things — our individual hobbies, passions and pursuits — outside of the collective effort of APO. And that was a good thing.
For years, we believed that whatever knowledge, reputation or advantages we personally gain from what we do individually, can only add to and enhance APO’s reputation. Everything we do adds up to the wealth of experience we all can delve in and profit from as a group. That’s how it was and it indeed served us well.
Thus, Danny is into Pidro, his T-shirt company and is doing consultancies. Boboy is into acting and golf. I am into writing, teaching, photography and workshops. Aside from these, the three of us have gone into collaborative social causes that range from environmental, electoral, educational, nationalistic — all pointing in the direction of people empowerment and the enhancement of our democracy.
But as varied and mixed as our interests are, APO has always been our home base. APO is the repository of all our experiences where we process everything, which has somehow added value and benefit to the group and made our shows, our spiels and our songs richer and more interesting.
Then there is also our friendship which has sustained us, given us a lot of joy and allowed each other the leeway to be different yet accepted, distant at times but not becoming alienated.
But 40 years is a long time. The repetitive nature of any career can get boring. That’s why in the past few years we have been individually looking at other horizons. We are all creative and, by nature, there is a gnawing restlessness in all of us that needs to be constantly fed with new experiences. And our personal journeys have brought us to different paths, made us drift apart and led us to interests that demand more and more of our time, making our commitment to APO and all its obligations less tenable.
These are some of the reasons why we are disbanding, although there are individual reasons as well. I will leave it to my friends to state the reasons that are theirs alone.
While all of the above are true for all of us, I speak for myself when I say there is no compelling reason to want to end APO. The only reason I see is that since it is bound to happen someday, it is best to end APO while we are still respected players on the scene. If breaking up is inevitable, why not do it now?
We can’t complain; the past 40 years have given us a good run.
APO has always been a united endeavor. It is a synergistic organization and that’s why it has worked so well all these years. More than three individual members, it has always been the “we” that has given APO life.
The group has been the longest-running commitment the three of us have made in our lives. We have been APO longer than we have been married to our wives, longer than we have been parents, or students, or any other endeavor we have said yes to individually. Ending it is therefore a very big deal for us, collectively and individually. It is not just a life-altering move, it is also a monumental reminder of the impermanence and finality of our mortal experience.
I have many conflicting feelings about our decision to disband, even as I am comforted by the messages I have received from many people: that APO’s music has been a signpost and a soundtrack to their lives as Filipinos; that we have made our mark as real OPM artists; that we will live in their hearts; that yes, there is meaning to everything we have done.
I do love performing with my friends and the three of us invariably feel great every time we pull off a concert doing our original stuff that we have creatively (and sometimes courageously) conceived, executed and perfected throughout our career. I cannot begin to express how much I will miss all that.
But I believe that as much as we are called to vocations and unions, we are also, at times, called to move on to other things. We have given our best years to APO, which has given us so much more in terms of the joy of performing, affirmation as artists, material blessings and stature.
It is only right that we honor it by ending while we can still perform together at our most joyful best. Anything less would be disrespectful to what APO has always been about and to the management, musicians, crew and our audience who gave us full support all these years.
I end with a promise that all the shows we will be doing from now to the end of May will be the best we will ever do. To be truthful, that is not anything new, since that is a promise we have kept all of these past 40 years.
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This is the last call.
Experience your most empowered, creative and joyful year, and the rest of your lifetime.
The 50th run of “Tapping the Creative Universe” workshop is set for Jan. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and Feb. 1. It’s from 7 to 9 p.m. at 113 B. Gonzales, Loyola Heights, QC. Cost is P5,000 for all six sessions.
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Write to emailjimp@gmail.com, or call 426-5375, 0916-855-4303 for inquiries and reservations
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Don’t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you’ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
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Knowing is more than half the battle: Cellphone Stuff!!!
5 Things You Never Knew Your
Cell Phone Could Do
For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept
in your car, purse, and wallet. Good information to have with
you.) There are a few things that can be done in times of
grave emergencies.Your mobile phone can actually be a life
saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that
you can do with it:
FIRST
Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find Yourself
out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an
Emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing
network to Establish the emergency number for you, and
interestingly, this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is
locked. Try it out.
SECOND
Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday.. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys In the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your
car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button,
holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will
unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if
you can reach someone who has the other ‘remote’ for your car, you
can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor’s Note:
It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!’
THIRD
Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys
*3370#. Your cell phone will restart with this reserve and the instrument
will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged
when you charge your cell phone next time.
FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following
Digits on your phone:
*#06#.
A 15-digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique
to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.
If your phone gets stolen, you can phone your service provider and
give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset
so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won’t get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can’t use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
And Finally…..
FIFTH
Free Directory Service for Cells
Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don’t have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial:
(800)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411
without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
This is the kind of information people don’t mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friendscool! salamat!
J-Rock Concert : Shonen Knife
J-Rock Concert featuring Shonen Knife and Pedicab
Centerstage, SM Mall of ASIA
February 27, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
In cooperation with SM Mall of ASia
Fresh from their US tour, seasoned punk-pop-rock musicians, Japanese legendary all-female band Shonen Knife, rocks out with Pedicab, the Philippines’ all-male dance-punk group in a one-night only performance, free to the public.
Shonen Knife is as strong as when it first originated in Osaka — with a career spanning almost three decades, bringing them numerous awards and performances in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Singapore, Hongkong – and now in Manila.
Reservation is necessary - seating is on a first-come, first-accommodated basis.
Pls. call 811-6155 to 58 for details and reservation.
