Comments on: Shotgun “bayanihan”

By: Celsa Lantto

Celsa Lantto — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:05:28 +0000

Just like any other kid, he’ll lose his teeth 1 or 2 at a time. Keep feeding him exactly the way you’ve been doing so you don’t upset his stomach. Cats tend to swallow their kibble whole, but if he wants to crunch he’ll still have other teeth to use. You may or may not find any teeth lying around. He’ll swallow some of them and others will get lost in the carpet, outdoors, or other places where you’ll never find them.

By: Primer

Primer — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:11:42 +0000

Forgive my asking. Please make plain how or in what context have you used the terms – shotgun bayanihan.

If you ask me, the true meaning of the word bayanihan is this: BAYANI-han which is a social and cultural phenomenon that is best exemplified in the case of Marikina a day after the disaster of unseen proportion that virtually flooded the entire Marikina City.

That to me is the true meaning of BAYANI-han. Let the BIG GOOD GOVERNMENT do its social role in times of disaster such as the rain floods that took many lives, destroyed belongings, and dislocated the squatters.

Time to reconstruct the future for the BETTER. And we need BAYANI FERNANDO for the next six years.

By: justice league

justice league — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:46:09 +0000

Joe America,

Cheers then.

By: leytenian

leytenian — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:21:54 +0000

Bayanihan…. Let’s watch Aga Muhlach.. He talks about GOVERNANCE UNDER ARROYO ADMINISTRATION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V7w8cRubL0

This is a good thing. I wish the entertainment industry will also use all resources including actors and actresses to educate the people not to sell their votes… It’s time for real Bayanihan…

By: Chino F.

Chino F. — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:37:00 +0000

Bayanihan stops where the looting starts.
Aside from looting of abandoned homes, I heard even an evacuation center was itself looted by some evacuees. The anti-pinoy at work. :/

By: Primer

Primer — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:31:36 +0000

Pardon my thought.

But I would rather subscribe to the view that there is at least one agency of government that can save lives, protect lives – in times of calamities or disasters that are characterized more as ‘acts of God’. If this is so, let it be taken to task.

I would rather commit to the view as well, that if that agency fails to undertake much-need rescue, search, and relief, that agency is deemed to have failed and if in a larger sense, there is reason to blame BIG BAD GOVERNMENT.

Marikina has set the highest standards of the things that should be done right after the calamity if it were unable to do during the calamity itself.

If other similary-situated municipalities or cities can follow suit, so much the better.

Politics is local so leave it to the local chief executive, first and foremost, the task to save, protect, and preserve life and property of every constituent under him or her.

By: Chino F.

Chino F. — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:04:17 +0000

Whatever humor you try to put in, I would like to see a couple of these laws you mentioned actually put into action. That religious imagery wall does seem smart. Same with the anti-loud karaoke singers law. As for the maids, well, while maids should sleep, the employers should be liable for the abuse subjected to them – including verbal abuse at the hands (oops, I mean mouths) of savage Filipino masters. haha.

Will some candidate put these on their platform, plez? hehehe

By: Non-malignant

Non-malignant — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:50:58 +0000

Of course ideas are cheap without corresponding actions. But right actions are always the result of good ideas. What is less than “cheap” are actions that lack right and good ideas first.

By: UP n grad

UP n grad — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:21:27 +0000

Ideas are cheap! Action, different story.

By: justpassingthrough

justpassingthrough — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:24:28 +0000

first of all, is it wrong to admit what’s wrong with
us? how else would we know what to fix if we don’t
check what needs fixing? i don’t know about you but i
know there’s much that needs fixing.

you should know that progress can only happen
once we start acknowledging our faults and
undertaking real improvements.

but of course there are those among us who just
enjoy being complacent. to these people I dare say
re-evaluate yourselves. who knows you might come
to realize that the filipino is worth improving.