LRT’s treatment of disabled
Philippine Daily Inquirer
2:26 am | Monday, November 7th, 2011
3share17 14
It is a pathetic scene: physically impaired Filipino citizens struggling to go up and down the stairs of LRT Recto.
Escalators and elevators in this station are out of order. The staircases are also dimly lit, and LRT passengers can hardly see their way. It seems that the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) does not care about the welfare of its passengers, especially those who are disabled.
The trains are even badly maintained. The recorded voice-over announcing the next stop is almost muted, so that anyone who does not know his way in Manila would not know where the train has stopped off, especially because LRT coaches are wrapped with advertisements blocking the view from the inside.
The LRTA management should look into this. The trains are meant to be of service to the public and not for profit. It should think about the safety and welfare of the passengers, particularly our physically impaired citizens.
—REGINALD B. TAMAYO, reginaldtamayo@yahoo.com
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Arrogant Officials
Arrogant Officials
Published in Philippine Free Press July 30, 2011 Issue
It is appalling to see government officials displaying their arrogance in public. A local official pummeling a helpless court officer. Another gesturing indecently at critics of the other official. Such arrogance derives from power and fortune. Such officials also display their vanity, riding around in flashy cars with special license plates and wearing expensive shoes, rings, and watches. When are we going to have modest, unassuming, and self-effacing officials? Today it’s hard to find such leaders whom we can recommend to our children to view as models of simplicity, integrity, honesty, and clean living. —Reginald B. Tamayo, Marikina City
Published in Philippine Free Press July 30, 2011 Issue
It is appalling to see government officials displaying their arrogance in public. A local official pummeling a helpless court officer. Another gesturing indecently at critics of the other official. Such arrogance derives from power and fortune. Such officials also display their vanity, riding around in flashy cars with special license plates and wearing expensive shoes, rings, and watches. When are we going to have modest, unassuming, and self-effacing officials? Today it’s hard to find such leaders whom we can recommend to our children to view as models of simplicity, integrity, honesty, and clean living. —Reginald B. Tamayo, Marikina City
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Arrogant public officials
Arrogant public officials
Philippine Daily Inquirer
12:01 am | Friday, July 22nd, 2011
It is heartbreaking that some of our public officials are so ego-driven and arrogant that they can insolently display such behavior even in public, like that local official who pummeled a harmless government employee. Another official defiantly flashed a dirty finger on television.
Such arrogance and egotism are often manifested not only in their cruel treatment of the lowly and the meek but also in the way they flaunt their fortunes and ride in flashy cars with vanity license plates.
Take notice of their shoes, watches, rings and other personal accessories and you will find personifications of narcissism.
When shall we have public officials who are modest in their ways? When shall we elect leaders who are unassuming and self-effacing? Nowadays, seldom do we find leaders we can recommend to our children as models of integrity, honesty and clean living.
That is why we should be cautious with politicians who appear to be gentle and timid during elections, during which they are submissive and do anything we want them to—from singing to dancing. Their true colors, however, emerge once they are elected into office, after which they immediately reveal themselves to be uncivilized and crooked.
We share the blame for their election into public office. We have not been meticulous enough in choosing the right leaders. We allow ourselves to be hoodwinked by their pretenses. We should realize that we helped turn them into monsters by gratifying their selfish political ambitions.
—REGINALD B. TAMAYO,
reginaldtamayo@yahoo.com
Philippine Daily Inquirer
12:01 am | Friday, July 22nd, 2011
It is heartbreaking that some of our public officials are so ego-driven and arrogant that they can insolently display such behavior even in public, like that local official who pummeled a harmless government employee. Another official defiantly flashed a dirty finger on television.
Such arrogance and egotism are often manifested not only in their cruel treatment of the lowly and the meek but also in the way they flaunt their fortunes and ride in flashy cars with vanity license plates.
Take notice of their shoes, watches, rings and other personal accessories and you will find personifications of narcissism.
When shall we have public officials who are modest in their ways? When shall we elect leaders who are unassuming and self-effacing? Nowadays, seldom do we find leaders we can recommend to our children as models of integrity, honesty and clean living.
That is why we should be cautious with politicians who appear to be gentle and timid during elections, during which they are submissive and do anything we want them to—from singing to dancing. Their true colors, however, emerge once they are elected into office, after which they immediately reveal themselves to be uncivilized and crooked.
We share the blame for their election into public office. We have not been meticulous enough in choosing the right leaders. We allow ourselves to be hoodwinked by their pretenses. We should realize that we helped turn them into monsters by gratifying their selfish political ambitions.
—REGINALD B. TAMAYO,
reginaldtamayo@yahoo.com
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Is the Church to be faulted?
Is the Church to be faulted?
I received many emailed reactions to my published PDI May 14 letter-to-the-editor "Why save the Filipino culture.". Some were appreciative of my observations that our culture is the culprit of our societal ills. Others were not charitable though in their views to the extent that they sorely verbalized their hatred to the Catholic Church and her priests as the inauspicious sources of our problems in society.
This to my mind is an unfair criticism. Even when the Catholic Church and her ministers have an opposing view as regards Reproductive Health Bill, this should not be a reason to despise the church and her clerics. The church can’t be blamed when it protects its flock from the pounding hand of the devil. The church can’t be faulted when it assesses critically national policies when chiefly they run counter to the Gospel values. The church can’t be accused of meddling in the affairs of the government when she finds it leading the faithful into the dark pit of sinfulness.
It is a witty remark for a congressman who said that he is allergy to an uncalled for homily. Many, for sure, share his feelings especially when listening to priests who give moralizing admonition which they themselves do not follow. There is even some who do not prepare their homilies that people with insomnia would simply doze off. Priests have limitations too. After all they are humans like us who have their own share of transgressions. But, more importantly, the Church is a human church.
Be that as it may, the Church is not faltering to her mission to evangelize. Evangelization is designed for all- those within the society or within the Church itself and even those outside her flock. It spreads the Gospel values to her own who distrust her teachings and ethos. That is why, the Church keeps on reminding Catholic politicians and her pastors of her teachings and the saving truth of the Gospels. Without this vital role of the Church, everything goes and everything becomes vicious. And if this is infuriating and irritating to some that they develop allergies listening to homilies as reminders to the extent of hating the Church and her priests, it is understandable. They simply cannot yet take pride in their faith and therefore cannot yet appreciate fully the significance of the teachings of the Church.
I received many emailed reactions to my published PDI May 14 letter-to-the-editor "Why save the Filipino culture.". Some were appreciative of my observations that our culture is the culprit of our societal ills. Others were not charitable though in their views to the extent that they sorely verbalized their hatred to the Catholic Church and her priests as the inauspicious sources of our problems in society.
This to my mind is an unfair criticism. Even when the Catholic Church and her ministers have an opposing view as regards Reproductive Health Bill, this should not be a reason to despise the church and her clerics. The church can’t be blamed when it protects its flock from the pounding hand of the devil. The church can’t be faulted when it assesses critically national policies when chiefly they run counter to the Gospel values. The church can’t be accused of meddling in the affairs of the government when she finds it leading the faithful into the dark pit of sinfulness.
It is a witty remark for a congressman who said that he is allergy to an uncalled for homily. Many, for sure, share his feelings especially when listening to priests who give moralizing admonition which they themselves do not follow. There is even some who do not prepare their homilies that people with insomnia would simply doze off. Priests have limitations too. After all they are humans like us who have their own share of transgressions. But, more importantly, the Church is a human church.
Be that as it may, the Church is not faltering to her mission to evangelize. Evangelization is designed for all- those within the society or within the Church itself and even those outside her flock. It spreads the Gospel values to her own who distrust her teachings and ethos. That is why, the Church keeps on reminding Catholic politicians and her pastors of her teachings and the saving truth of the Gospels. Without this vital role of the Church, everything goes and everything becomes vicious. And if this is infuriating and irritating to some that they develop allergies listening to homilies as reminders to the extent of hating the Church and her priests, it is understandable. They simply cannot yet take pride in their faith and therefore cannot yet appreciate fully the significance of the teachings of the Church.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
My son's Valedictory Address
MY VALEDICTORY ADDRESS (MARCH 30, 2011)
by Reiner Lorenzo Tamayo on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 7:46pm
To our beloved parish priest, Rev. Fr. Adalbert Barut, our Directress-Principal Sr. Alfreda Maria Rosario V. Piguing, SPC; Sr. Alicia; Sr. Leah; our scrupulous advisers, Mrs. Teresita Taguba and Mrs. Karen Chan; the Student Affairs Chairperson, Mrs. Ronalyn Agustin; our Student Council President for the school year 2010-2011, Mr. Ryan Esquibil; patient mentors; parents; friends; guests and fellow graduates good afternoon!
A few weeks ago, we were taking up Latent Heat in our Physics class with Mrs. Noemi Sibayan. It is also referred to as Hidden Heat. Why? It is because the heat that was absorbed by an ice cube for instance does not affect its temperature. But a change in its state happened. From a solid ice it turned into liquid ice. Like the ice, we have absorbed some 1,000,000 calories of knowledge from our teachers. We are now going through a phase change at this very moment. We are ending our being solid hard headed people and are travelling in the speed of sound to be more flexible individuals ready to go with the turbulent waves of a more crucial life.
Sir Winston Churchill once said, “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Yes, I failed several times. I lost hope but eventually I never lost faith. Failure has been and will forever be a part of the cycle. Without it, fluorescent lamps and ballpoint pens couldn’t have been invented.
Our graduation song with the title “The Climb” best describes the journey I went through before I got here. Let me state two lines from its chorus: “…sometimes I’m gonna have to lose. Ain’t about how fast I get there…” It was not really that fast and easy to reach the top for it took me eight long school years. I waited eight years for me to be called ‘First’ once again. The last time I heard people call me the ‘First Honor’ in class was way back 2002 when I was on the 1st grade.
What I humbly prayed for in the past ten months was to simply finish the race with whatever distinction I deserve. But God is good to me and my family for He gave me more than what I prayed and hoped for. I have faced tons of obstacles and jumped hundreds of hurdles or even thousands. Duties on the council and school requirements came like a tsunami day after day drowning me in stress. The zits you see on my face are living proofs.
Those difficult times and depressing moments did not stop me and all of my batch mates from dreaming, claiming and working for it. Nothing, ever, is impossible to get. What you need to do is to stick with that goal and get busy with those special codes in order for your plan to work out like a computer program.
We have been waiting for this day for us to finally escape Catch-22s and dilemmas encountered on the four corners of our classrooms. After this day, the disgust whenever there is an assignment or project, the eye bags during and after examination days, and the trepidation and anxiety we feel after each grading period will be all gone! They are all replaced by euphoria or a feeling of great happiness. At last, our story is in its conclusion part already! Everyone is glad about it for we are now a part of SPSA’s history and SPSA is now a part of our history.
Today, March 30, 2011, we are gathered here to harvest the fruits of our efforts. These recognitions represented by metal medals will soon rust. They will look old and ugly and will not serve their purpose. That is not the matter to be talked about. For the most important thing here is that you recognized our small and simple efforts. We do appreciate every compliment and comment, even criticisms perhaps, before these medals and diplomas were handed down to us. A piece of metal and a piece of paper, could they make another Jose Rizal? Mahatma Gandhi? Or even Ludwig van Beethoven? Definitely, not! Yet there is always a possibility that one or two of these 60 graduates can be like them or be greater than them.
Next semester we would be studying and taking up different courses in different colleges and universities; from Green and Gold to Maroon, Blue, Red or else Black, Gold, White. The next level is eventually more difficult but still is not the hardest. We must not be afraid and just thank St. Paul School of Aparri who equipped us with all the necessary knowledge and virtues needed to win another battle. I say it is not the hardest for the hardest level in life is when you are already earning money to support a family. This institution has prepared us for this final level, inculcating into our innocent minds that whenever we stand on a high platform we must keep our head facing down and never forget the fact that before we got there we were once on the ground.
Graduation day is also a day of gratitude. It is but proper to thank all those who have played their role in making up our short story.
First and foremost, I would like to thank you dear parents for the opportunity to study in the No.1 provider of Quality Catholic Education in the Northeastern part of Cagayan. Thank you for the very day or night that you decided to work on a special biological process to conceive a new baby into the wombs of your wives. Thank you for taking into consideration all the ironic attitudes we staged on the early years of our lives. Thank you for everything, especially the incomparable love you are giving us.
To the SPC Sisters, thank you dear Sisters for understanding us. We tried our best to make you happy and be proud of us. We hope that you will consider our batch as one of the good ones. May the Holy Spirit be with you to help you continue your mission here.
To our mentors, I am glad that you did not reach your elastic limit. Your wrinkles alone proved to us that your profession is quite hard. Thank you for the unending support on all our endeavors. We hope to see you after five years when we finally landed on a specific job. The strong gravitational attraction between us and this school will keep us going back and say ‘thank you’ to each and every one of you who molded us. Ma’am Rona, I thank you for being a shoulder to cry on. May your decisions be for the best. Just keep on praying. I know that one day they will appreciate all our sacrifices especially what we have done which they refer to as “ordinary and little achievements.” Again, to all the teachers, thank you.
To the non-academic personnel: Ate Aida, Ate Mary Ann, Kuya Edmund, Kuya Nelson, Kuya Rey, Kuya Erol, and our three security guards together with Nurse Dianne, Ma’am Nida, Ma’am Roldan and Ma’am Sol, you are special contributors to our success. We thank you for the services you unceasingly offered which made our stay in St. Paul School worthwhile.
To my older sister Regine and Ate Aurea who are both in UST by this time, thank you for inspiring me to just go on with the race. Ate Regine, I now know how hard it is to study here. The experiences you shared gave me distinct ideas on how to go about every individual in this school. You are right. Some tried their best to put my face in the mud but their plans did not work out. I stood mightier.
And to my parents, Mom and Dad thank you for everything. You knew the sacrifices I needed to do and the temptations I needed to resist. This is it! I graduated Valedictorian. Our long lost dream became a reality. My fight was tough. But without you here beside me made it tougher. You urged me to be strong and so I did. You are miles away from us to work. I did not complain because I know you are doing that painful sacrifice to make our lives better. I am not asking anything from you or even let you buy things for me. It is because I know that a single cent costs a thousand drop of sweat. This is my birthday and anniversary gift to the both of you.
Batch mates, I will truly miss our craziness, laziness and also the kilig and sunog kilay moments. We are like Lego pieces. We are of different shapes, sizes and colors. But even though we have physical differences we are classified as one. Cecilians, I’m gonna miss our more than 5 minute morning worship. I will miss all those long prayers and Bible passages that we pray and read every morning. But what I’m gonna miss the most are the moments wherein we get to bond with each other. I hope that you will be able to reach your dreams and pursue your ambitions in life. Thank you for cheering me up during the times when I feel I couldn’t make it. You have made my last year in SPSA memorable.
Finally, to the Creator – I thank you Lord for keeping my faith strong and giving me people like Fr. Diddi who let me realize the importance of claiming and not just dreaming. Thank you for giving me this life, this school, and everything that I am. Whatever and whoever I may be in the future, be it for your glory!
To all of you present in this commencement program, thank you for coming. You have just witnessed one of the important occasions in our lives. Your presence made it more special. God bless you and your families.
One more thing batch mates do not stop believing. We are notes and we make up a harmonious song of love and unity. We are not fortune-tellers, not even prophets, who could read palms and predict what will happen in the forthcoming years. We do not know what lies ahead in our future. But never forget that we are the composers of our lives. Whatever we think and do now will reflect to who we will be later. Make your song – your life – a masterpiece!
Caritas Christi Urget Nos! Thank you and Congratulations to all of us! (Reiner Lorenzo J. Tamayo)
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by Reiner Lorenzo Tamayo on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 7:46pm
To our beloved parish priest, Rev. Fr. Adalbert Barut, our Directress-Principal Sr. Alfreda Maria Rosario V. Piguing, SPC; Sr. Alicia; Sr. Leah; our scrupulous advisers, Mrs. Teresita Taguba and Mrs. Karen Chan; the Student Affairs Chairperson, Mrs. Ronalyn Agustin; our Student Council President for the school year 2010-2011, Mr. Ryan Esquibil; patient mentors; parents; friends; guests and fellow graduates good afternoon!
A few weeks ago, we were taking up Latent Heat in our Physics class with Mrs. Noemi Sibayan. It is also referred to as Hidden Heat. Why? It is because the heat that was absorbed by an ice cube for instance does not affect its temperature. But a change in its state happened. From a solid ice it turned into liquid ice. Like the ice, we have absorbed some 1,000,000 calories of knowledge from our teachers. We are now going through a phase change at this very moment. We are ending our being solid hard headed people and are travelling in the speed of sound to be more flexible individuals ready to go with the turbulent waves of a more crucial life.
Sir Winston Churchill once said, “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Yes, I failed several times. I lost hope but eventually I never lost faith. Failure has been and will forever be a part of the cycle. Without it, fluorescent lamps and ballpoint pens couldn’t have been invented.
Our graduation song with the title “The Climb” best describes the journey I went through before I got here. Let me state two lines from its chorus: “…sometimes I’m gonna have to lose. Ain’t about how fast I get there…” It was not really that fast and easy to reach the top for it took me eight long school years. I waited eight years for me to be called ‘First’ once again. The last time I heard people call me the ‘First Honor’ in class was way back 2002 when I was on the 1st grade.
What I humbly prayed for in the past ten months was to simply finish the race with whatever distinction I deserve. But God is good to me and my family for He gave me more than what I prayed and hoped for. I have faced tons of obstacles and jumped hundreds of hurdles or even thousands. Duties on the council and school requirements came like a tsunami day after day drowning me in stress. The zits you see on my face are living proofs.
Those difficult times and depressing moments did not stop me and all of my batch mates from dreaming, claiming and working for it. Nothing, ever, is impossible to get. What you need to do is to stick with that goal and get busy with those special codes in order for your plan to work out like a computer program.
We have been waiting for this day for us to finally escape Catch-22s and dilemmas encountered on the four corners of our classrooms. After this day, the disgust whenever there is an assignment or project, the eye bags during and after examination days, and the trepidation and anxiety we feel after each grading period will be all gone! They are all replaced by euphoria or a feeling of great happiness. At last, our story is in its conclusion part already! Everyone is glad about it for we are now a part of SPSA’s history and SPSA is now a part of our history.
Today, March 30, 2011, we are gathered here to harvest the fruits of our efforts. These recognitions represented by metal medals will soon rust. They will look old and ugly and will not serve their purpose. That is not the matter to be talked about. For the most important thing here is that you recognized our small and simple efforts. We do appreciate every compliment and comment, even criticisms perhaps, before these medals and diplomas were handed down to us. A piece of metal and a piece of paper, could they make another Jose Rizal? Mahatma Gandhi? Or even Ludwig van Beethoven? Definitely, not! Yet there is always a possibility that one or two of these 60 graduates can be like them or be greater than them.
Next semester we would be studying and taking up different courses in different colleges and universities; from Green and Gold to Maroon, Blue, Red or else Black, Gold, White. The next level is eventually more difficult but still is not the hardest. We must not be afraid and just thank St. Paul School of Aparri who equipped us with all the necessary knowledge and virtues needed to win another battle. I say it is not the hardest for the hardest level in life is when you are already earning money to support a family. This institution has prepared us for this final level, inculcating into our innocent minds that whenever we stand on a high platform we must keep our head facing down and never forget the fact that before we got there we were once on the ground.
Graduation day is also a day of gratitude. It is but proper to thank all those who have played their role in making up our short story.
First and foremost, I would like to thank you dear parents for the opportunity to study in the No.1 provider of Quality Catholic Education in the Northeastern part of Cagayan. Thank you for the very day or night that you decided to work on a special biological process to conceive a new baby into the wombs of your wives. Thank you for taking into consideration all the ironic attitudes we staged on the early years of our lives. Thank you for everything, especially the incomparable love you are giving us.
To the SPC Sisters, thank you dear Sisters for understanding us. We tried our best to make you happy and be proud of us. We hope that you will consider our batch as one of the good ones. May the Holy Spirit be with you to help you continue your mission here.
To our mentors, I am glad that you did not reach your elastic limit. Your wrinkles alone proved to us that your profession is quite hard. Thank you for the unending support on all our endeavors. We hope to see you after five years when we finally landed on a specific job. The strong gravitational attraction between us and this school will keep us going back and say ‘thank you’ to each and every one of you who molded us. Ma’am Rona, I thank you for being a shoulder to cry on. May your decisions be for the best. Just keep on praying. I know that one day they will appreciate all our sacrifices especially what we have done which they refer to as “ordinary and little achievements.” Again, to all the teachers, thank you.
To the non-academic personnel: Ate Aida, Ate Mary Ann, Kuya Edmund, Kuya Nelson, Kuya Rey, Kuya Erol, and our three security guards together with Nurse Dianne, Ma’am Nida, Ma’am Roldan and Ma’am Sol, you are special contributors to our success. We thank you for the services you unceasingly offered which made our stay in St. Paul School worthwhile.
To my older sister Regine and Ate Aurea who are both in UST by this time, thank you for inspiring me to just go on with the race. Ate Regine, I now know how hard it is to study here. The experiences you shared gave me distinct ideas on how to go about every individual in this school. You are right. Some tried their best to put my face in the mud but their plans did not work out. I stood mightier.
And to my parents, Mom and Dad thank you for everything. You knew the sacrifices I needed to do and the temptations I needed to resist. This is it! I graduated Valedictorian. Our long lost dream became a reality. My fight was tough. But without you here beside me made it tougher. You urged me to be strong and so I did. You are miles away from us to work. I did not complain because I know you are doing that painful sacrifice to make our lives better. I am not asking anything from you or even let you buy things for me. It is because I know that a single cent costs a thousand drop of sweat. This is my birthday and anniversary gift to the both of you.
Batch mates, I will truly miss our craziness, laziness and also the kilig and sunog kilay moments. We are like Lego pieces. We are of different shapes, sizes and colors. But even though we have physical differences we are classified as one. Cecilians, I’m gonna miss our more than 5 minute morning worship. I will miss all those long prayers and Bible passages that we pray and read every morning. But what I’m gonna miss the most are the moments wherein we get to bond with each other. I hope that you will be able to reach your dreams and pursue your ambitions in life. Thank you for cheering me up during the times when I feel I couldn’t make it. You have made my last year in SPSA memorable.
Finally, to the Creator – I thank you Lord for keeping my faith strong and giving me people like Fr. Diddi who let me realize the importance of claiming and not just dreaming. Thank you for giving me this life, this school, and everything that I am. Whatever and whoever I may be in the future, be it for your glory!
To all of you present in this commencement program, thank you for coming. You have just witnessed one of the important occasions in our lives. Your presence made it more special. God bless you and your families.
One more thing batch mates do not stop believing. We are notes and we make up a harmonious song of love and unity. We are not fortune-tellers, not even prophets, who could read palms and predict what will happen in the forthcoming years. We do not know what lies ahead in our future. But never forget that we are the composers of our lives. Whatever we think and do now will reflect to who we will be later. Make your song – your life – a masterpiece!
Caritas Christi Urget Nos! Thank you and Congratulations to all of us! (Reiner Lorenzo J. Tamayo)
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Is the Church irrelevant?
Dear Friend,
I truly enjoyed your letter and agree with most of your insight in the downward spiral of our country. I left the Philippines in 1963 when we were second only to Japan in the economy and first in Asia in education and in mastery of the English language so much so that many Asian countries send their citizens here if only to gain education and learn he English language. I was so excit3d that I remember excitedly telling my dad, who saw me off on the ship to San Francisco, "Pagbabalik ko number 1 na tayo!" I did not get the chance to return until a decade later and to my amazement our country was rapidly deteriorating!
May I be bold to lay the major part of the blame to the CHURCH, which has become inutil and irrelevant in its mandate to Proclaim the Gospel and disciple its adherents into the teachings of The Lord Jesus Christ. This is supported by our IGNORANCE of the Scriptures. The Church had become a habit, a tradition, nothing more. The Life-changing Gospel is glaringly absent in its teachings.
What when we see Bishops going to Malacanang and taking bribes!! When a mass is said in the palace among crooks who assuaged their consciences with a bunch of mambo-jumbo and leaving worst than they first came.
The Church has lost (Don't really think they had it) the life and heart changing GOspel. I teach Bible Study in the campus of a local University here in Dagupan and am appalled at the lack of, even a hint, of scriptural knowledge among the devout Catholics that attend. They are devoid of spirituality though deeply religious!
Prayer is our only hope, GOd's people banging on heaven's gates asking for mercy and grace.
Until the Nets are Full,
Douglas G. Chanco
Dagupan City
May the Lord's peace and joy be with you today and always.
Your Brother In Christ,
Doug (Matt 25:40)
I truly enjoyed your letter and agree with most of your insight in the downward spiral of our country. I left the Philippines in 1963 when we were second only to Japan in the economy and first in Asia in education and in mastery of the English language so much so that many Asian countries send their citizens here if only to gain education and learn he English language. I was so excit3d that I remember excitedly telling my dad, who saw me off on the ship to San Francisco, "Pagbabalik ko number 1 na tayo!" I did not get the chance to return until a decade later and to my amazement our country was rapidly deteriorating!
May I be bold to lay the major part of the blame to the CHURCH, which has become inutil and irrelevant in its mandate to Proclaim the Gospel and disciple its adherents into the teachings of The Lord Jesus Christ. This is supported by our IGNORANCE of the Scriptures. The Church had become a habit, a tradition, nothing more. The Life-changing Gospel is glaringly absent in its teachings.
What when we see Bishops going to Malacanang and taking bribes!! When a mass is said in the palace among crooks who assuaged their consciences with a bunch of mambo-jumbo and leaving worst than they first came.
The Church has lost (Don't really think they had it) the life and heart changing GOspel. I teach Bible Study in the campus of a local University here in Dagupan and am appalled at the lack of, even a hint, of scriptural knowledge among the devout Catholics that attend. They are devoid of spirituality though deeply religious!
Prayer is our only hope, GOd's people banging on heaven's gates asking for mercy and grace.
Until the Nets are Full,
Douglas G. Chanco
Dagupan City
May the Lord's peace and joy be with you today and always.
Your Brother In Christ,
Doug (Matt 25:40)
Pathetic situation
Pathetic situation
To Mr. Tamayo,
I have read your write-up published in the Inquirer newspaper. I find your views and assessment of thePhilippines' current social predicament worth reading and sharing to the public. I, too, find the situation pathetic, to say the least. It is saddening to see our values have gone corrupted. It is when we reached the point of complacence and indifference that positive changes and hope seem remote.
I am Psychology professor, by the way, and I try to do my humble share of making a difference in educating our students to be morally and socially responsive persons.
Thank you for sharing your time and views.
Amapola Lustre
To Mr. Tamayo,
I have read your write-up published in the Inquirer newspaper. I find your views and assessment of thePhilippines' current social predicament worth reading and sharing to the public. I, too, find the situation pathetic, to say the least. It is saddening to see our values have gone corrupted. It is when we reached the point of complacence and indifference that positive changes and hope seem remote.
I am Psychology professor, by the way, and I try to do my humble share of making a difference in educating our students to be morally and socially responsive persons.
Thank you for sharing your time and views.
Amapola Lustre
People should change
People should change
I agree that the Philippine culture is getting worse. I am a foreigner living in the Philippines and have seen it get worse each year. I also agree that politics is a big reason. One can not get elected without some sort of illegal activity. The people come to expect and yes hold out their hand to receive the expected rewards of voting for one person. The politicians expect to get power and yes more money from their election. Why would you spend millions of peso for a job that only pays thousands? You must also understand that the Philippines is not very christian. Their largest church has much to be ashamed of.
It has been said that you can not change a country without changing the people. I do not see the people changing.
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Tom
I agree that the Philippine culture is getting worse. I am a foreigner living in the Philippines and have seen it get worse each year. I also agree that politics is a big reason. One can not get elected without some sort of illegal activity. The people come to expect and yes hold out their hand to receive the expected rewards of voting for one person. The politicians expect to get power and yes more money from their election. Why would you spend millions of peso for a job that only pays thousands? You must also understand that the Philippines is not very christian. Their largest church has much to be ashamed of.
It has been said that you can not change a country without changing the people. I do not see the people changing.
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Tom
Role of the colonizer
I read your letter in the PDI,
This is the only former colony of Spain that I ever hear still saying all their social problems come from the Colonizer...
I think Pinoys should grow up and take responsibility for their own problems.. every week or so in the media we read somebody else blame Marcos for our lousy economy.. when its all BS..our lousy economy is due to our closed and restrictive over burdensome Constitution, and the domination of our business world by Tsinoys... rather than Pinoys!
Nobody in South or Central America and certainly not Mexico, Guam or Puerto Rico ever blames Spain for any of their troubles. Spain hasn't been here for more than 100 yrs, and the U.S. has been out for more than 50 yrs...
Any problems we have are of our own making!, We have a lousy Govt. because we elect lousy people... Why would we knowingly elect a do-nothing president just because of his mama and papa, when he did absolutely zero while in congress and the senate??
That kind of behavior, electing trapos like Binay and crazy people like Jamby is our problem, NOT some antiquated relationship with Spain!
Most grade school and high school students DO NOT even know anything about Spain and how we came to be called the Philippines, ask any of them who Philip II was and they have no idea...
Our former Colonizer is the least of our many problems and has nothing to do with our weak, and soft mentality.... Spain had nothing to do with our Pres. kissing the ass of China only to see the drug runners executed anyway.. Our neighbors all know we are weak and soft.. the Prime Ministers of both Sinapore and Maylaysia wrote scholarly papers about our weak soft behavior... The Problem is US not Spain!
sincerely,
jose luis pidal
This is the only former colony of Spain that I ever hear still saying all their social problems come from the Colonizer...
I think Pinoys should grow up and take responsibility for their own problems.. every week or so in the media we read somebody else blame Marcos for our lousy economy.. when its all BS..our lousy economy is due to our closed and restrictive over burdensome Constitution, and the domination of our business world by Tsinoys... rather than Pinoys!
Nobody in South or Central America and certainly not Mexico, Guam or Puerto Rico ever blames Spain for any of their troubles. Spain hasn't been here for more than 100 yrs, and the U.S. has been out for more than 50 yrs...
Any problems we have are of our own making!, We have a lousy Govt. because we elect lousy people... Why would we knowingly elect a do-nothing president just because of his mama and papa, when he did absolutely zero while in congress and the senate??
That kind of behavior, electing trapos like Binay and crazy people like Jamby is our problem, NOT some antiquated relationship with Spain!
Most grade school and high school students DO NOT even know anything about Spain and how we came to be called the Philippines, ask any of them who Philip II was and they have no idea...
Our former Colonizer is the least of our many problems and has nothing to do with our weak, and soft mentality.... Spain had nothing to do with our Pres. kissing the ass of China only to see the drug runners executed anyway.. Our neighbors all know we are weak and soft.. the Prime Ministers of both Sinapore and Maylaysia wrote scholarly papers about our weak soft behavior... The Problem is US not Spain!
sincerely,
jose luis pidal
Still, imagine
Theres The Rub
Still, imagine
By Conrado de Quiros
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:47:00 05/16/2011
Filed Under: Culture (general), Religions
Most Read
There were a couple of interesting letters in this paper over the weekend.
One was from Benjamin Mallorca Jr. who said he felt moved by my column on the 9-year-old Japanese kid who gave to others though he himself had lost everything. The kid had lost all his family to the tsunami, but after being given rations by a cop as he queued up at a food line, he brought the rations to the distributing officer so others could partake of them.
Mallorca agreed with me that “the Japanese boy and Vietnamese cop are not Christians, yet as the story showed us, they had more Christian charity than we do, and they demonstrated a capacity for self-sacrifice more than we Filipinos do.”
“How soon will we Filipinos, who are mostly Christians, transform our society into one that can produce a generation of Filipinos with values like those of the 9-year-old Japanese orphan? When can we produce a generation of Filipinos who ‘understand the concept of self-sacrifice for the greater good’? Or will we just remain as we are now, mired in the culture of corruption, where selfishness and greed are (rife)?”
The other letter was from Reginald Tamayo, which runs along the same lines. “I once listened to a homily of a priest-friend who said it is the degenerating Filipino culture that is the culprit behind our present difficulties. I agree: a malignancy afflicts our culture. Government anomalies no longer scandalize us. Corruption and immorality no longer outrage us. We have become numb to heinous crimes. We are no longer incensed by the arrogance of the powers-that-be. We no longer cringe in the face of brazen dishonesty, blatant lying and lawlessness.
“It’s as if we’re back under the yoke of the colonizers… Our forebears fell into apathy and low self-esteem, and they developed a willingness to be exploited and abused. We manifest these attitudes in similar fashion these days.”
Tamayo goes on to call on us to revive bayanihan, pakikisama, and pakikipagkapwa-tao so “we can bring back our country to its old glory.”
These are thoughtful letters and reflect an ache that is widespread among, well, the thoughtful. And again it compels us to ask if religion—or at least the kind of religion we’ve known, which, courtesy of the friars, is not altogether removed from superstition—is not a factor, and a huge one, in the culture of backwardness blighting the country.
I remember in this respect an Australian (whose name escapes me now) who incensed a lot of people here a couple of decades ago by writing letters and articles blaming Catholicism, or our brand of it, for pretty nearly every ill in this country. It was the one thing that stood in the path of science and reason, he said, things that have long held sway in the civilized world. If he had to name one factor that thoroughly screwed up the Filipino, he said, it was that.
From the other end, Tony Meloto, the founder of Gawad Kalinga, notes the same thing but finds it totally unacceptable. We are the one predominantly Catholic country in Asia, he says, but we are also the one country that has fallen far behind, home to a teeming poor and even more teeming hopelessness. He believes that that should not be the case. He believes the opposite should be so, that the power of the Catholic faith lies especially in being given to tending to the poor—Christ was so, and did—and can be employed magnificently toward that end. He at least walks the talk.
The truth is probably somewhere in between. The problem is not religion, or even the Catholic faith per se, it is the kind of religion or Catholic faith we have. True enough, as Tamayo says, we never seemed to have shirked off the colonial yoke, and a good deal of the reason for that lies in the mental yoke the friars bequeathed to us, a set of beliefs that conduces dysfunctional behavior.
At the very least it encourages self-centeredness. You do only as much as is necessary to save yourself, or your soul from perdition. In fact you can buy a berth in heaven by accumulating indulgences the way you accumulate money in the bank. Such as by donating to the Church, which many landlords fearing for their souls did on their deathbeds in Spanish times. Contrast that with what the 9-year-old Japanese boy did, which was to share what little he had, or what virtually nothing was left to him, for no other reason than that it was the right thing to do, for no other reason than that it was the only thing he knew how to do. It had nothing to do with saving his soul, it had nothing to do with feeling big-hearted, it had nothing to do with, well, being Christian.
At the very most, it is a system of beliefs given to form over substance, to ritual over essence. Why worry about corruption? All you have to do is hear Mass and receive the sacraments, preferably before dying, and you’re good. You can spend the rest of your days, lying, cheating and stealing, or even murdering. I bet GMA considers herself a very good Catholic.
The opposition to the RH bill is a variation on that theme. The people who do so feel a lot more fervor for the “unborn children” (who must number in the trillions if you include concupiscent youth jerking off) than for the born ones, the ones who forage in the mountains of trash or sleep the effects of cough syrup in the sidewalks of the city. They would rather defend the mythical existence of the “unborn children” than the existence of the very ones who have neither the life of the body nor the life of the soul, neither the life of the heart nor the life of the mind, whose existence is slow-motion suicide, if not homicide. What is this but form over substance? What is this but ritual over reality? What is this but saying, “I love humanity—it’s people I hate”?
Still, imagine.
Still, imagine
By Conrado de Quiros
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:47:00 05/16/2011
Filed Under: Culture (general), Religions
Most Read
There were a couple of interesting letters in this paper over the weekend.
One was from Benjamin Mallorca Jr. who said he felt moved by my column on the 9-year-old Japanese kid who gave to others though he himself had lost everything. The kid had lost all his family to the tsunami, but after being given rations by a cop as he queued up at a food line, he brought the rations to the distributing officer so others could partake of them.
Mallorca agreed with me that “the Japanese boy and Vietnamese cop are not Christians, yet as the story showed us, they had more Christian charity than we do, and they demonstrated a capacity for self-sacrifice more than we Filipinos do.”
“How soon will we Filipinos, who are mostly Christians, transform our society into one that can produce a generation of Filipinos with values like those of the 9-year-old Japanese orphan? When can we produce a generation of Filipinos who ‘understand the concept of self-sacrifice for the greater good’? Or will we just remain as we are now, mired in the culture of corruption, where selfishness and greed are (rife)?”
The other letter was from Reginald Tamayo, which runs along the same lines. “I once listened to a homily of a priest-friend who said it is the degenerating Filipino culture that is the culprit behind our present difficulties. I agree: a malignancy afflicts our culture. Government anomalies no longer scandalize us. Corruption and immorality no longer outrage us. We have become numb to heinous crimes. We are no longer incensed by the arrogance of the powers-that-be. We no longer cringe in the face of brazen dishonesty, blatant lying and lawlessness.
“It’s as if we’re back under the yoke of the colonizers… Our forebears fell into apathy and low self-esteem, and they developed a willingness to be exploited and abused. We manifest these attitudes in similar fashion these days.”
Tamayo goes on to call on us to revive bayanihan, pakikisama, and pakikipagkapwa-tao so “we can bring back our country to its old glory.”
These are thoughtful letters and reflect an ache that is widespread among, well, the thoughtful. And again it compels us to ask if religion—or at least the kind of religion we’ve known, which, courtesy of the friars, is not altogether removed from superstition—is not a factor, and a huge one, in the culture of backwardness blighting the country.
I remember in this respect an Australian (whose name escapes me now) who incensed a lot of people here a couple of decades ago by writing letters and articles blaming Catholicism, or our brand of it, for pretty nearly every ill in this country. It was the one thing that stood in the path of science and reason, he said, things that have long held sway in the civilized world. If he had to name one factor that thoroughly screwed up the Filipino, he said, it was that.
From the other end, Tony Meloto, the founder of Gawad Kalinga, notes the same thing but finds it totally unacceptable. We are the one predominantly Catholic country in Asia, he says, but we are also the one country that has fallen far behind, home to a teeming poor and even more teeming hopelessness. He believes that that should not be the case. He believes the opposite should be so, that the power of the Catholic faith lies especially in being given to tending to the poor—Christ was so, and did—and can be employed magnificently toward that end. He at least walks the talk.
The truth is probably somewhere in between. The problem is not religion, or even the Catholic faith per se, it is the kind of religion or Catholic faith we have. True enough, as Tamayo says, we never seemed to have shirked off the colonial yoke, and a good deal of the reason for that lies in the mental yoke the friars bequeathed to us, a set of beliefs that conduces dysfunctional behavior.
At the very least it encourages self-centeredness. You do only as much as is necessary to save yourself, or your soul from perdition. In fact you can buy a berth in heaven by accumulating indulgences the way you accumulate money in the bank. Such as by donating to the Church, which many landlords fearing for their souls did on their deathbeds in Spanish times. Contrast that with what the 9-year-old Japanese boy did, which was to share what little he had, or what virtually nothing was left to him, for no other reason than that it was the right thing to do, for no other reason than that it was the only thing he knew how to do. It had nothing to do with saving his soul, it had nothing to do with feeling big-hearted, it had nothing to do with, well, being Christian.
At the very most, it is a system of beliefs given to form over substance, to ritual over essence. Why worry about corruption? All you have to do is hear Mass and receive the sacraments, preferably before dying, and you’re good. You can spend the rest of your days, lying, cheating and stealing, or even murdering. I bet GMA considers herself a very good Catholic.
The opposition to the RH bill is a variation on that theme. The people who do so feel a lot more fervor for the “unborn children” (who must number in the trillions if you include concupiscent youth jerking off) than for the born ones, the ones who forage in the mountains of trash or sleep the effects of cough syrup in the sidewalks of the city. They would rather defend the mythical existence of the “unborn children” than the existence of the very ones who have neither the life of the body nor the life of the soul, neither the life of the heart nor the life of the mind, whose existence is slow-motion suicide, if not homicide. What is this but form over substance? What is this but ritual over reality? What is this but saying, “I love humanity—it’s people I hate”?
Still, imagine.
Why save the Filipino culture
INQUIRER OPINION - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Why save Filipino culture
Philippine Daily Inquirer
May 14, 2011
I ONCE listened to a homily of a priest-friend who said it is the degenerating Filipino culture that is the culprit behind our present difficulties. I agree: a malignancy afflicts our culture. Government anomalies no longer scandalize us. Corruption and immorality no longer outrage us. We have become numb to heinous crimes. We are no longer incensed by the arrogance of the powers-that-be. We no longer cringe in the face of brazen dishonesty, blatant lying and lawlessness.
We have grown used to social iniquities. We know the gravity and danger of “small sins,” yet we tolerate them. We claim to be a Christian country yet we do a lot of things that are unchristian.
Gone are the old traditional Filipino values of bayanihan, pakikisama, pakikipagkapwa-tao, paggalang, etc.
The government has had a big role in destroying our culture of the past. With its power and influence, it has slowly instilled in many of us its crooked values, practices and ways—dishonesty, cheating, corruption, disloyalty and disrespect for life and property.
We are as if we are back under the yoke of colonizers. Because of their colonizers’ strong influence over a long period of time, our forebears fell into apathy and low self-esteem, and they developed a willingness to be exploited and abused. We manifest these attitudes in similar fashion these days.
Let us reject these ghastly attitudes and their accompanying evils. Let us be agents of cultural change. Let us revive and preserve our traditional Filipino values. It is only then that we can bring back our country to its old glory.
—REGINALD B. TAMAYO,
reginaldtamayo@yahoo.com
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Why save Filipino culture
Philippine Daily Inquirer
May 14, 2011
I ONCE listened to a homily of a priest-friend who said it is the degenerating Filipino culture that is the culprit behind our present difficulties. I agree: a malignancy afflicts our culture. Government anomalies no longer scandalize us. Corruption and immorality no longer outrage us. We have become numb to heinous crimes. We are no longer incensed by the arrogance of the powers-that-be. We no longer cringe in the face of brazen dishonesty, blatant lying and lawlessness.
We have grown used to social iniquities. We know the gravity and danger of “small sins,” yet we tolerate them. We claim to be a Christian country yet we do a lot of things that are unchristian.
Gone are the old traditional Filipino values of bayanihan, pakikisama, pakikipagkapwa-tao, paggalang, etc.
The government has had a big role in destroying our culture of the past. With its power and influence, it has slowly instilled in many of us its crooked values, practices and ways—dishonesty, cheating, corruption, disloyalty and disrespect for life and property.
We are as if we are back under the yoke of colonizers. Because of their colonizers’ strong influence over a long period of time, our forebears fell into apathy and low self-esteem, and they developed a willingness to be exploited and abused. We manifest these attitudes in similar fashion these days.
Let us reject these ghastly attitudes and their accompanying evils. Let us be agents of cultural change. Let us revive and preserve our traditional Filipino values. It is only then that we can bring back our country to its old glory.
—REGINALD B. TAMAYO,
reginaldtamayo@yahoo.com
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Decaying Filipino Culture
Decaying Filipino Culture
Published in May 14, 2011 Free Press Issue
A priest who’s a friend of mine once said in a homily that the culprit in our difficulties is our declining culture. I agree. We are no longer scandalized by scams in the government. We are not outraged anymore by corruption and immorality among our officials. We are no longer incensed by the arrogance of the powers that be. We have become numb to heinous crimes. We seem to have accepted that all this is part of our culture. The government, instead of being the agent of change, is dictating its values to us. This cannot go on. We must deconstruct our culture and return to the traditional values that have made us Filipinos by practicing them—starting now.
—Reginald B. Tamayo, Marikina City
Published in May 14, 2011 Free Press Issue
A priest who’s a friend of mine once said in a homily that the culprit in our difficulties is our declining culture. I agree. We are no longer scandalized by scams in the government. We are not outraged anymore by corruption and immorality among our officials. We are no longer incensed by the arrogance of the powers that be. We have become numb to heinous crimes. We seem to have accepted that all this is part of our culture. The government, instead of being the agent of change, is dictating its values to us. This cannot go on. We must deconstruct our culture and return to the traditional values that have made us Filipinos by practicing them—starting now.
—Reginald B. Tamayo, Marikina City
Thursday, April 21, 2011
The malignancy of our present culture
The malignancy of our present culture
I once listened to a homily of a priest-friend who said that it is the declining Filipino culture which is the culprit in our present difficulties. I concur. There is malignancy in our current culture that causes all our troubles in our country.
We are no longer scandalized by the many scams in the government. We are not outraged anymore by the numerous graft and corruption practices and immorality of some of our public officials. Our sensibilities are by now numbed to the countless heinous crimes committed by devious individuals. We are no longer incensed by the arrogance of the powers-that-be. We do not cringe on the brazen dishonesty, blatant lying and rowdiness of the bigheaded people. Indeed, we seem to admit that all these ghastly social evils are already integrated in our culture. We have grown used to these iniquities in our society. We know the horror of these peccadilloes yet we genially consent to them. It looks like we already shaped our consciousness and accept that this is now our contemporary culture.
These are diametrically opposed to the culture of the past. We do not seem to feel good about ourselves when we practice the social values of bayanihan, pakikisama, pakikipagkapwa –tao, paggalang, and many others. It appears that we feel uncomfortable or embarrassed when we practice these values. It is delusional to believe that we are a Christian country yet we do unchristian ways.
The government, among others, plays a vital role in the formation of this culture. Though debatable, it imposes this culture to us. It is no longer us, I opine, who are the agents of change of our culture. The government, many say, takes the center stage and rams down our throat the social values it insists on. We, as ever, are silently subservient of this. Along the process, we assimilate the culture of dishonesty, cheating, corruption, disloyalty and disrespect to life and property.
This is no different when we were under the rule of our colonizers. Because of their strong influence, our forebears for some time developed the attitude of passiveness, low esteem, and the willingness to be exploited and abused. We display this outlook in similar fashion nowadays.
Let us deconstruct our culture. Let us be the agents of cultural change and not as obedient recipients of disvalues. Let us not fall victims of the purveyors of social evils. We can preserve our traditional Filipino values by practicing them, now. It is only then that we can bring back our country to its old
I once listened to a homily of a priest-friend who said that it is the declining Filipino culture which is the culprit in our present difficulties. I concur. There is malignancy in our current culture that causes all our troubles in our country.
We are no longer scandalized by the many scams in the government. We are not outraged anymore by the numerous graft and corruption practices and immorality of some of our public officials. Our sensibilities are by now numbed to the countless heinous crimes committed by devious individuals. We are no longer incensed by the arrogance of the powers-that-be. We do not cringe on the brazen dishonesty, blatant lying and rowdiness of the bigheaded people. Indeed, we seem to admit that all these ghastly social evils are already integrated in our culture. We have grown used to these iniquities in our society. We know the horror of these peccadilloes yet we genially consent to them. It looks like we already shaped our consciousness and accept that this is now our contemporary culture.
These are diametrically opposed to the culture of the past. We do not seem to feel good about ourselves when we practice the social values of bayanihan, pakikisama, pakikipagkapwa –tao, paggalang, and many others. It appears that we feel uncomfortable or embarrassed when we practice these values. It is delusional to believe that we are a Christian country yet we do unchristian ways.
The government, among others, plays a vital role in the formation of this culture. Though debatable, it imposes this culture to us. It is no longer us, I opine, who are the agents of change of our culture. The government, many say, takes the center stage and rams down our throat the social values it insists on. We, as ever, are silently subservient of this. Along the process, we assimilate the culture of dishonesty, cheating, corruption, disloyalty and disrespect to life and property.
This is no different when we were under the rule of our colonizers. Because of their strong influence, our forebears for some time developed the attitude of passiveness, low esteem, and the willingness to be exploited and abused. We display this outlook in similar fashion nowadays.
Let us deconstruct our culture. Let us be the agents of cultural change and not as obedient recipients of disvalues. Let us not fall victims of the purveyors of social evils. We can preserve our traditional Filipino values by practicing them, now. It is only then that we can bring back our country to its old
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Ang Bagong Internal Rules of Procedure ng Ika-6 na Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Marikina
Ang Bagong Internal Rules of Procedure ng Ika-6 na Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Marikina
Ni Reginald B. Tamayo
Ang pagpupulong o session ng ating ika-6 na Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Marikina ay mas organisado, mas epektibo at mas mabisa sa ngayon. Mas matagumpay sa kasalukuyan ang bawat session ng Sangguniang Panlungsod dahil sa ipinapatupad nitong Revised Internal Rules of Procedure. Kadalasan ay tinatawag itong Rules. Ang Revised Internal Rules of Procedure ay ang makabagong patakaran na sinusunod ng mga konsehales sa kanilang session para maging maayos ang kanilang talakayan. Maihantulad ito sa larong basketbol kung saan ang mga manlalaro ay may mga patakarang sinusunod upang ang laro nila nasisigurong ay malinis, tunay, at mapayapa. Ang mga kasapi din ng ating Sangguniang Panlungsod ay nagkaisang magkaroon ng panibagong Rules katulad ng kanilang pinagtibay kamakailan na Revised Internal Rules of Procedure. Ito ay kanilang malalimang pinag-aralan, pinadebatehan, at pinaggugulan ng panahon upang ito ay masusing balangkasin na naayon sa kagustuhan ng lahat. Hindi maikakaila na dahil sa bagong ipinatutupan na Rules na ito, ang mga konsehales ay nagiging mas aktibo at mas masigasig sa kanilang mga tungkulin bilang mga lokal na mambabatas ng kalunsuran,
Maaring ang tanong ng ilan ay bakit binago ang dating Internal Rules of Procedure? Sa anong kadahilanan na ito ay pinalitan? Hindi ba angkop ang dating Rules na tugunan ang pangangailangan ng lokal na lehislatura? Sa mga nakakasaksi sa mga session ng Sangguninag Panlungsod tuwing Miyerkules sa ganap na 9:00 ng umaga, ito man ay sa loob mismo ng session hall o sa pamamagitan ng panonood ng live session sa internet, ay makapagsasabi na base sa dating Rules na ipinaiiral noon, ang session ay mistulang nawawala sa direksyon. Sa madaling sabi, ang mga session ng ating Sangguniang Panlungsod bago pa ipinatupad ang bagong Rules ay mistulang hirap na abutin ang layunin ng mga kasapi na makapagpasa ng mga lokal na batas na tutugon sa mga pngangailangan ng nakararami. Sa kabilang banda ang dating Rules ay naglalaman ng mga probisyon na may iba’t ibang interpretasyon. Kaya naman madalas nagkakasalungat ang mga mungkahi ng mga kasapi, nagkakapersonalan ang usapan, at nalalayo na sa layunin ng pagpupulong ang pagkakaroon ng isang pangkalahatang desisyon.
Dahil dito sa bagong Rule, mas malinaw na sa mga konsehales kung paano tugunan o pagpasyahan ang mga problema na ipinaparating sa kanila sa pamamagitan ng pagbalangkas ng mga iba’t-ibang resolusyon o ordinansa. Higit lalo na mas handa na ang Sangguniang Panlungsod kung paano hawakan ang mga mahihirap at kontrobersyal na isyu.
Laking pasasalamat sa tagapangasiwa ng ika-6 na Sangguniang Panglungsod na si Bise Alkalde Jose Fabian I. Cadiz, M.D. dahil sa kanyang pamumuno sa planong ibahin ang Rules. Nakasalalay kay Dr. Cadiz ang maayos na takbo ng pag-uusap at pagdesisisyon ng mga kasapi ng konseho. Ika nga si Bise Alkalde Cadiz ay parang pulis-trapiko na siyang nagpapaandar at nagpapahinto at nagpapalinaw ng usapan sa session na naayon sa bagong Rules. At pasasalamat na rin kay Konsehala Eva Aguirre-Paz dahil siya ang nanguna at nag-ambag ng mga probisyon ng bagong Rules sa pamamagitan ng pagsasaliksik sa mga batas katulad ng Rebublic Act 7160 o ang tinatawag na Local Government Code of 1991 dahil karamihan sa probisyon ng bagong Rules na ipinapatupad sa ika-6 ng Sangguniang Panlungsod ay tugma at naayon sa batas na ito.
Ni Reginald B. Tamayo
Ang pagpupulong o session ng ating ika-6 na Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Marikina ay mas organisado, mas epektibo at mas mabisa sa ngayon. Mas matagumpay sa kasalukuyan ang bawat session ng Sangguniang Panlungsod dahil sa ipinapatupad nitong Revised Internal Rules of Procedure. Kadalasan ay tinatawag itong Rules. Ang Revised Internal Rules of Procedure ay ang makabagong patakaran na sinusunod ng mga konsehales sa kanilang session para maging maayos ang kanilang talakayan. Maihantulad ito sa larong basketbol kung saan ang mga manlalaro ay may mga patakarang sinusunod upang ang laro nila nasisigurong ay malinis, tunay, at mapayapa. Ang mga kasapi din ng ating Sangguniang Panlungsod ay nagkaisang magkaroon ng panibagong Rules katulad ng kanilang pinagtibay kamakailan na Revised Internal Rules of Procedure. Ito ay kanilang malalimang pinag-aralan, pinadebatehan, at pinaggugulan ng panahon upang ito ay masusing balangkasin na naayon sa kagustuhan ng lahat. Hindi maikakaila na dahil sa bagong ipinatutupan na Rules na ito, ang mga konsehales ay nagiging mas aktibo at mas masigasig sa kanilang mga tungkulin bilang mga lokal na mambabatas ng kalunsuran,
Maaring ang tanong ng ilan ay bakit binago ang dating Internal Rules of Procedure? Sa anong kadahilanan na ito ay pinalitan? Hindi ba angkop ang dating Rules na tugunan ang pangangailangan ng lokal na lehislatura? Sa mga nakakasaksi sa mga session ng Sangguninag Panlungsod tuwing Miyerkules sa ganap na 9:00 ng umaga, ito man ay sa loob mismo ng session hall o sa pamamagitan ng panonood ng live session sa internet, ay makapagsasabi na base sa dating Rules na ipinaiiral noon, ang session ay mistulang nawawala sa direksyon. Sa madaling sabi, ang mga session ng ating Sangguniang Panlungsod bago pa ipinatupad ang bagong Rules ay mistulang hirap na abutin ang layunin ng mga kasapi na makapagpasa ng mga lokal na batas na tutugon sa mga pngangailangan ng nakararami. Sa kabilang banda ang dating Rules ay naglalaman ng mga probisyon na may iba’t ibang interpretasyon. Kaya naman madalas nagkakasalungat ang mga mungkahi ng mga kasapi, nagkakapersonalan ang usapan, at nalalayo na sa layunin ng pagpupulong ang pagkakaroon ng isang pangkalahatang desisyon.
Dahil dito sa bagong Rule, mas malinaw na sa mga konsehales kung paano tugunan o pagpasyahan ang mga problema na ipinaparating sa kanila sa pamamagitan ng pagbalangkas ng mga iba’t-ibang resolusyon o ordinansa. Higit lalo na mas handa na ang Sangguniang Panlungsod kung paano hawakan ang mga mahihirap at kontrobersyal na isyu.
Laking pasasalamat sa tagapangasiwa ng ika-6 na Sangguniang Panglungsod na si Bise Alkalde Jose Fabian I. Cadiz, M.D. dahil sa kanyang pamumuno sa planong ibahin ang Rules. Nakasalalay kay Dr. Cadiz ang maayos na takbo ng pag-uusap at pagdesisisyon ng mga kasapi ng konseho. Ika nga si Bise Alkalde Cadiz ay parang pulis-trapiko na siyang nagpapaandar at nagpapahinto at nagpapalinaw ng usapan sa session na naayon sa bagong Rules. At pasasalamat na rin kay Konsehala Eva Aguirre-Paz dahil siya ang nanguna at nag-ambag ng mga probisyon ng bagong Rules sa pamamagitan ng pagsasaliksik sa mga batas katulad ng Rebublic Act 7160 o ang tinatawag na Local Government Code of 1991 dahil karamihan sa probisyon ng bagong Rules na ipinapatupad sa ika-6 ng Sangguniang Panlungsod ay tugma at naayon sa batas na ito.
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