Unexplained wealth and unexplained poverty

EDGE DAVAO.... KADA ADLAW NA!!!

sin tax?

A recent study conducted by the Southeast Asia Tabacco Control Alliance reveals that 18.7% of Filipino young women between the ages of 13 and 25 smoke cigarettes. The numbers is expected to increase if the sample is restricted to teenagers between 13 and 15 for which  3 out of 10  have known to  already have the smoking habit.

Interview revealed that among female smokers, 60% say that they smoked their first cigarette at the age of 18, while the remaining 40% say they started  when they were still very young out of curiousity.

What is more alarming is the revelation that these smokers are not keen on quitting despite the fact that they are aware of the risks connected to smoking. The survey further revealed that nine girls out of ten know that smoking can cause lung cancer, infertility, early menopause, osteoporosis, and hysterectomy. 

INITIATIVES  to put warning labels on packaging remain futile to curb, if not totally stop this vice.

reversed psychology

pen is mightier than sword... but a bullet proves more fatal

"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive 

while you're at it."   

Greeley, Horace

“Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. 

It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims 

of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.”

 Henry Anatole Grunwald

“Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism,
the second best into business, 

the rubbish into politics
and the shits into law”

 Auberon Waugh

75th araw ng Dabaw

HAPPY 75TH ARAW NG DABAW

Recently, local dailies banner news on the spate of hold-up incidents here in Davao City. People have become  watchful and and sensible not to wear dangling attractants tempting to the criminals. Police forces have been mobilzed and were allegedly assigned with "quotas" as to how many hold-upers should they nab in a day. 

Araw ng Dabaw (or Linggo ng Dabaw since we we celbrate this the  whole week) is about to unfold and  City Mayor Inday Sara is hell-bent to make this event successful and peaceful. 

"I would expect resiliency from each other especially so that this is not the first time this happened in our city," Inday Sara said.

With the 35 activities line up for this year's Araw celebration, the people of Dabaw, the DABAWENYOS, will surely rally to make this event a success.

No need to fear... the police officers are here!!!

hopefully.

CACOPHONY or symphony

THE SYMPHONY AND SYMMETRY eminent in the common interests and avarice of these two conniving entities aggravate poverty. Orchestrated move indeed and robbery in broad daylight!

But according to MALACAÑANG, the Aquino administration has been trying to do its best (huu-hoom) and exhausting all means  to cushion the impact of the rising oil prices. The Department of Energy had already releasedP1,200 each worth of fuel assistance to about 100,000 public transport card holders under the Pantawid Pasada Program. What then is the "cushion" provided to the passengers? Duh...pin cushion?

Various militant groups are demanding for the repeal the Expanded Value Added Tax Law, the Oil Deregulation Law, and the Power Electricity Reform Act (Epira). Unfortunately, the Aquino Government remains  deaf to the clamor of the people.

Or let's  just say, the clamor has faded into mere whispers and hushed moans.

KAY NGANO MAN KAHA?

NAPAGAW NA INTAWON ANG NAPASMONG PUBLIKO 
SA PAGSIGE UG SINGIT..

PULEEEESSSS please....

 

in the movies, cops always arrive at the crime scenes late.

hence they earn the monicker..."magbalantay sa kalinaw" or "men in peace".
abot na sila pag linaw na.

i hope in real life, it's the other way around. puleeeessss please...

BULLYING. it starts in schools then thrives in workplaces

 

Schools are the best places where bullies are breed. These young and 

insecure indivuduals prey on geeky classmates. They extort baon, pull chairs, 

steal notebooks, punch kick and shove smaller victims. They also go techy

 thru cyberbullying, spreading gossips in the nets

 (and to think they loudly display their 150 johnny bravo macho aura), 

posting manipulated scandalous images. 

They thrash talk and boast about games they win and their capers with girls, talking like the invincible and ohh so well endowed desirable sucker(soccer) players, pranching their abs and scabs. 

They are the Gods. 

They are the best. 

They rock and they are hard.

They are the most sought bemustached idols like Rico J.

 Pinaka gwapo, pinaka athletic, pinakamacho that other men 

are simply reduced to becoming mere "beekeee", nerds and worst, insects!

 

Done with school, these bullies has  grown old find new turfs 

in a niche called workplace.  And then the cycle begins again.

 Anti-Bullying Act of 2012

January 17, 2012, 10:47pm

MANILA, Philippines — After an Anti-bullying movement in the 2000s and 2010s gained popularity in the United States and United Kingdom, the Charity Act Against Bullying was formed in the United Kingdom in 2003, and National Bullying Prevention Month was declared in the United States in 2006.

In the Philippines, the House of Representatives has approved a bill requiring all elementary and secondary schools to adopt anti-bullying policies. House Bill 5496, the Anti-Bullying Act of 2012, seeks to promote greater awareness of the impact of bullying and how it can be prevented.

The bill requires that anti-bullying policies be included in the school’s student and employee handbook; details of the policies should be posted in school websites and school walls; schools shall submit their anti-bullying policies to the Department of Education (DepEd) within six months upon effectivity of the law; bullying incidents in schools must be reported to the division superintendents, who in turn shall report to the Education Secretary; and the DepEd must submit a report on bullying incidents to the appropriate congressional committee and impose sanctions on school administrators who do not implement anti-bullying policies.

Bullying is now the number one non-academic issue that most educators face, and is one of the top concerns of many parents. Defined as an act of repeated aggressive behavior in order to intentionally hurt another person either emotionally, verbally, or physically, bullying is characterized by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person. Bullies may behave this way out of jealousy or because they themselves are bullied. When they leave school, they will most likely carry on their bullying in the workplace.

MANILA BULLETIN PUBLISHING CORP

hell of a ride

favorite street food... unsafe?

moments to shine (showbiz!!!!)

man made disaster or wrath of nature

weather weder lang

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

poster designs

dabbling with graphic designs

JUSTICE DELAYED is justice relayed!

It’s Christmas time. 

     Everyone looks forward to the get a whiff from delicious traditional dishes, sizzling sisig and grilled barbeque . Instead, the air reeks with stench from the gutters of political cesspool because of the thugs at war eerr… tug of war game the president elect and the midnight appointed Supreme Court judge is currently playing. 
 
     Political analysts express contradicting views about the consequence of the political catfight. Intellectualized and brilliant interpretations on “what would be” spurred and cramped the internet. Free for all fracas and exchange of spicy rebuttals between the parties at odds have been hugging the headlines both to the entertainment of vultures in the politics watching the fray from the bleachers but to the dismay of billions of daily earners who break bones from sunrise to sunset just to make both ends meet.
 
      Children who look forward to see Santa’s smiles pasted on magazine covers instead, see senator-judges clad in P5,000 worth magenta or red togas with gold sash and frozen in firing squad stance captured in panoramic pictures. Sadly, those innocent eyes are devoid of clues why.

      For goodness sake! The yearlong dizzying roller coaster ride of economic and political instability and unpredictable oil price rollbacks and hikes have already benumbed the public. This season is the only time of the year where we want nothing but to be happy and to bask " in the spirit of Christmas exchanging cheap gifts while singing " Kasadya" and Ania Kami". We must not allow the tug of war between the “justice crown” and the “Malacanang denizen” and political balderdash spoil this season we celebrate.
 
     Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago once expressed concern about the lack of legal background of some fellow senators who will act as judges during Corona’s trial. “Since not all senators are lawyers, or if they studied law but never practiced in a trial court, they might depend too heavily on their consultants, and in effect it might be the consultants who are casting the vote during the final decision,” the senator who is a former Quezon City Regional Trial Court judge herself said.

     But it doesn’t take a lawyer to understand what is happening now. Even a lowly sidewalk vendor understands that the root of this political melee is greed and hunger for power.

     It's christmas time!! Let’s leave the grilling of  Justice Corona to the senators while we grill pork chops for noche Buena.

     Lord Salisbury once said, if you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

What if we believe in lawyers then?

Scary.  Duh.

CORRUPTION!!! an incurable disease