Today’s newspapers appear to have one thing on common: They are all happy for newly-wed couple Liberal Party vice presidential candidate Sen. Mar Roxas II and ABS-CBN chief correspondent Korina Sanchez.
Photos from yesterday’s wedding rites dominate most today’s frontpages:
The office of Sen. Mar Roxas II swiftly sent out two “official” photos of the senator’s wedding rites with broadcaster Korina Sanchez held at the historic Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City.
As of posting time, the Mar-Korina wedding remains a hot topic on Twitter and Facebook.
Here are the two photos:
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who partied with Prospero Pichay on Wednesday night amid devastation caused by typhoon Ondoy, proudly spoke about disaster preparedness in her last state of the nation address:
International authorities have taken notice that we are safer from environmental degradation and man-made disasters.
As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared
I really loved my quick visit to Colorado.
If Los Angeles and New York are world cities and dotted by skyscrapers, Colorado is vastly different.
I’m continuing the series of photos I took from a recent trip to the United States.
This time, I’ve posted some pictures from San Diego
I’ve started posting photos I took from my 15-day trip to the United States.
First installment: Los Angeles.
Hundreds trooped to the University of the Philippines on Saturday for the iBlog5 5th Philippine Blogging Summit, including my old and new friends friends in the Philippine blogosphere.
Poor Filipinos have always been caricatured so badly, with some of the well-off and well-to-do deceiving themselves that the “masang Pilipino” are individually and collectively ignorant, pathetic, gullible, indolent and unproductive. They forever link the “masa” to Joseph Estrada, in an apparent bid to discredit them as no different from their idol who has been found to be a fraud and a plunderer.
A big number of bloggers attended today’s WordCamp Philippines at the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde in Manila. Touted as the first such event in Southeast Asia, the event is now part of local blogging and internet history.
Keynote speaker was Matt Mullenweg, Mr. WordPress himself, who had an instant rapport with the admiring audience of Filipino bloggers.
Kudos to writer Ninotchka Rosca for her banner story in today’s Inquirer titled “RP envoy charged in US”.
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An inquest panel today heard lawyer Raymond Fortun’s complaint against former Assemblyman Homobono Adaza and several others on alleged extortion and planning a coup d’etat.
Kudos to Mark for winning the “funniest” category in the “Sun, Sand and Snapshots 2008″ photo contest.Below is Mark’s winning entry:
Perhaps Shari best described our collective and individual feelings at the end of the Bloggers’ Kapihan with Among Ed last Saturday: tiring, yes… but nevertheless jampacked with so many lessons and starpower we could handle in a day.
Among Ed’s remarks were thought-provoking and it should open the eyes of everyone about the potentials of blogging for the cause of good governance. Methinks, the quest of the Pinoy blogosphere is not to find or write the best posts at any time of the day. Among Ed was looking for the expressions of hope, the expressions of young people longing for change, and the hearty dialogue that should follow. We must sweep away all sense of selfishness and encourage everyone — especially the voiceless — to find their voice.
Engr. Rodolfo Noel “Jun” Lozada yesterday joined the Bloggers Kapihan crew (Ederic, Mong, Vencer, Sarah and myself) for the launch of his online sanctuary.
Lozada’s online sanctuary is none other than his very own blog at jlozada.com. His first post is aimed at young Filipinos, titled “Message to the Youth”.
For those curious about the event, read the ABS-CBNnews.com and Inquirer.net reports.
The BK crew is wittingly assuming a role as “blog evangelists”, encouraging people to take up blogging as a means of personal and community expression.
Next week, the BK crew goes to Pampanga to witness the launch of a blog on good governance courtesy of Gov. Among Ed Panlilio.
Here are some photos taken yesterday:
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Crew members of the Bloggers Kapihan today sat down with Senate star witness Rodolfo Noel “Jun” Lozada at the comfy lounge of the La Salle Greenhills‘ Brothers’ House. Attendance: JM, Sarah, Mong, Jhay and me.
Lozada was relaxed and comfortable during our two-hour sit-down with him. He spoke intensely about the important role of young people in finding out the truth, and small and big things that have happened since he dared spoke out the truth and was –to his surprise — proclaimed a hero for doing so.
Young people, said Lozada, should step up and stake their claim the truth. He said that like political freedom, truth is not simply handed down to us. We must ask for it. We must fight for it.
Lozada said that he intends to hit the ground running at the start of the new school year; forums are now being organized in scores of schools.
My impression is that Lozada has practically launched his own movement for truth. His call is for the people to abandon the ideology of hopelessness and selfishness that is being spread by the status quo, and lay claim and build the bright future we all aspire for. His aversion to talk about any plan to run for public office sounded sincere, and stressed by way of example, that he merely wants the young people to discover that they may — or should — act and be the leaders themselves. He said he was so happy one time when he saw shirts printed with this question: “Sino ang ipapalit?” and right there on the same shirt was the answer “ako!”
Lozada was not alluding to himself. He was just saying that young people should lead the movement for change.
Below are more pictures I took during the talk:
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