The Freudian Slip Of A Bacolodnon

A group of health leaders from 7 municipalities from Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur were asked about their hopes for their respective municipalities during the first day of their training in Dipolog City (Municipal Leaders for MDG's). These health leaders are the mayors, municipal health officers, municipal social welfare and development officer, and councilor for health or chairperson of the league of barangays. It is quite touching to note that all of them have sincere hopes for their towns, particularly in the field of health. After collating their answers to this question, I made a cloud tag (courtesy of Wordle) to see the pattern in their answers (kinda like a semantic analysis). The following is the cloud tag of the answers to the question: "What do you hope for your municipality?" Click the picture to enlarge. Like it? Share it. Get the Share on Facebook widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( More in...

I love listening to Teddy Boy Locsin's TEDitorial portion in the World Tonight on ANC. While I may not agree with all of his opinions, I feel that he makes a good point for every one, even those who are not legal luminaries, to consider, especially at the current situation that we are facing now. His latest editorial, "The Rule of Law or The Rule of Ignorance" made a very interesting point on the Arroyo case. Teddy says, "Erap Estrada should not forget who let him go. First to Hong Kong and then for good." Perhaps this is an answer to Erap's remarks that what is happening to Arroyo is brought about by karma. In his same editorial, Teddy Boy also emphasized that it "was not GMA who toppled Estrada but Cory, Joker, Manny Villar, Erap's allies in Congress, civil societies, FVR, The Church and the Generals..." He also added that it was not GMA but the press "devoid of decorum" who published Erap's humiliating mug shots. Perhaps wh...

The Philippine Azkals will be having a friendly match with David Beckham's L.A. Galaxies this coming December 3, 2011. And since I will be in Manila during that day, I am planning to watch the game considering how rare this moment can be for Philippine sports. So I went online to check the seat prices at Ticketworld. The cheapest ticket is 2,000 pesos. This is perhaps the most expensive ticket being sold in an Azkal international football match. In the past, ticket prices would range from 300 to 3,000 pesos. The most expensive ticket is 15,500. The seat arrangement is posted here, courtesy of Ticketworld. I am having second thoughts of watching the event. I am not sure if it is going to be covered by Studio 23 or any cable channel for that matter but the point is, I think it would be exciting to watch the game together with the rest of the crowd. The match starts at 7:30pm of Dec. 3, 2011. I still have until the end of the week to decide whether or not I am going to watch th...

A few days ago, I was sent a link in facebook about baby Aiyanna, who was born with a complex cyanotic heart disease (complete atrioventricular septal defect, single atrium, single ventricle, malpose great arteries, pulmonary stenosis, closed PDA). She has what they call single ventricle defect, which is a very rare congenital heart defect. A normal person would have 4 chambers in his heart but Aiyanna only has 2. Her latest 2D echo result suggests heterotaxy heart condition and she is considered for heterotaxy syndrome, another rare defect involving the arrangement of the heart and other organs in the chest and the abdomen manifesting malposition as well as abnormal symmetry. Why am I giving so much focus on Baby Aiyanna? Baby Aiyanna is actually a daughter of a fellow former Doctor to the Barrios (Doc Yash, Batch 21). The multiple issues with her heart requires three (3) stages of surgery. Doc Yash and his family is in need of financial support to help save their baby and give he...

A new video ad for Axe deodorant has recently been banned due to it allegedly offending Christians. The video depicts women angels falling from the sky seemingly attracted by the scent of Axe deodorant worn by a man. The commercial ends with the angels throwing away their halos, apparently exchanging their immortal state of life for a mere mortal. According to the news, a male Christian viewer wrote a complaint to the company expressing how upset he was that by "the suggestion that God's messengers could literally fall for a man on the basis of his shop-bought fragrance." I am posting the video here. What do you think? Like it? Share it. Get the Share on Facebook widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( More info )Like it.

After the refusal of the DOJ to follow the TRO released by the SC (too many acronyms there), calls from PNoy's opponents for his impeachment suddenly became loud. For them what they see is an abuse of power as manifested in his defiance of a court order. Some commentaries would agree to this (e.g. Teddy Boy Locsin's editorial ) while others are more cautious of even mentioning the word impeachment. But what do the blogosphere and twitter-world say? Like it? Share it. Get the Share on Facebook widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( More info )Like it.

Today I arrived from Dipolog on what technically became my official travel-work with my new job. For what seemed to be only 1 day and a half, I traveled together with the President of the Zuellig Family Foundation to two municipalities which are "under the care" of the ZFF. These towns are the municipality of Mutya and the municipality of Siayan in ZamNorte. My role was basically to help gather insights from the experience of these two towns after they received some training and coaching from the foundation through the Zamboanga Health Alliance program. It wasn't my first time in Dipolog. The first time was actually almost one year ago when I was invited by ZFF to be one of their resource speakers for a training held in Dakak. I touched down in Dipolog and traveled to Dapitan. This time, it was my first to go outside of Dipolog and visit two towns and really go down the barangay level to visit and observe their own local health systems. While on the way, the President (fo...

During the evening of Nov. 15, NAIA Terminal 1, one of the world's worst and most hated airports, went into a frenzy when former President Gloria Arroyo arrived with her husband and son in an attempt to leave the country for Singapore. This was after the Arroyo camp received a Supreme Court order restraining the watch list order imposed by the Department of Justice on the Arroyos. According to the watch list order, the Arroyos cannot leave the country without permission from the Department of Justice. The Arroyos immediately went to the NAIA to catch a supposedly 8:50pm flight to Singapore for their November 17 appointment with a specialist. However, upon checking in with their airline, the immigration officers at the airport did not allow the Arroyos to board their plane, supposedly as directed by the DOJ and the Palace. The entire event was televised nationwide. According to the Supreme Court however said that there is nothing that can prevent the Arroyos from leaving the count...

Commentaries from people around the world reacting to the Pacquiao-Marquez fight. UPDATE: Will be posting video highlights of the Pacquiao vs. Marquez fight. Congratulations to Manny Pacquiao. Like it? Share it. Get the Share on Facebook widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( More info )Like it.

Exactly 4 years after I went to Manila to attend the predeployment for doctors to the barrios (Nov. 5, 2007), last Nov. 5, I officially "moved" back to Manila to work this time for Zuellig Family Foundation (ZFF) as one of their project associates. The job was offered a year ago when I was invited to be, for the first time, one of their resource speakers for their Health Leaders and Managers for the Poor (HLMP) Training. I was honored to have been offered the job by the foundation's president himself. It was almost serendipitous that it came at the moment when I resigned from the municipality of Candoni (Negros Occidental) due to personal reasons. Those reasons for resigning were not kept from the public though and friends and co-workers knew why I resigned. Even the Department of Health, or at least those associated with the DTTB program, knew about the circumstances that led to my leaving the community. ZFF knew about it through the case study that I was offered to writ...

Almost every body seems to be obsessed with the day Nov. 11, 2011 because of its 11/11/11 significance. The 6 1's can be quite superstitious for those who believe in superstition in the first place. The number 1 has its own meaning and symbolism for some people who are into numerology. Some say it has psychic properties or represents a channel to the subconscious, while others stress its inborn duality, kinda like the yin and yang, the good and evil that is both inherent in human nature. Throughout modern and ancient history the number 11 has become affiliated with a lot of events and personalities. The latest of course is the attack on the Twin Towers in New York at the 11th of September, the two towers resembling the number 11 themselves. World War 1 ended at the 11th hour of November 11 (1918), making it a triple 11 there just like today (11/11/11). For those adhering to the practices and beliefs of numerology, the number 11 is supposed to be the Master Number (The Life Path or...

Once again, this blog has been included as one of the finalists for the Philippine Blog Awards for Visayas 2011. The last time this blog was included as a finalist was in 2009. For a full list of finalists for Visayas, click on the link here . The Freudian Slip (which is now named as The Freudian Slip Of A Bacolodnon) is listed as a finalist under the Personal Blogs category. According to their official website, "The Philippine Blog Awards is a yearly event that aims to give recognition to outstandings blogs in but not limited to the Filipino Blogging Community. The Philippine Blog Awards is organized by the Philippine Blogger Awards Inc. a non-stock and non-profit corporation. The 1st Philippine Blog Awards was held March 31, 2007 at the RCBC Theater, RCBC Tower, Makati City with over 200 bloggers and participants attending the awards night. The event was a success because of the volunteers and the support from the Philippine Blogging Community." For the Visayas group, ...

The picture shown here is the last page of the Act of Surrender signed by the Spanish Governor-General and the leaders of the Negros Revolt. The text in this blog entry was taken from WIkipedia: It has been stipulated that the Spanish civil and religious authorities in Negros did not initially suspect that the sugar barons and traders of the island would participate in an uprising against Spain. The clergy in Negros had not acquired vast tracts of land, unlike their counterparts in the island of Luzon. Negros had become a rich province and "the local leaders were content, sharing even in many instances the social privileges of the Spanish elite." Negros did not seem enthusiastic about the August 23, 1896 Cry of Balintawak and the subsequent revolt headed by the Tagalog Katipuneros. Rather, it disapproved the same as battalions of volunteers were organized in Bais, Valladolid, La Carlota, and Isabela in order to defend the island. There had been, however, early on, attemp...

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After watching the movie "In Time", I have learned so much from this almost philosophical movie. 1. Time is precious. I must not waste my time. 2. I must be generous with my time. 3. Some have more time than others. 4. People die long before their time would run out. 5. Every second counts. 6. Every body wants to live forever. 7. There is actually plenty of time for everyone. 8. No matter how much time I have, it will always run out. 9. To get what I want, I would always need to sacrifice my time. 10. There is so much one can do in a day. Like it? Share it. Get the Share on Facebook widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( More info )Like it.

How many famous and infamous people can you recognize in this picture? You can click on the picture to enlarge it. List down as many names as you can here. Like it? Share it. Get the Share on Facebook widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( More info )Like it.

Not sure whether I should be scared or start laughing. Happy Halloween everyone. Like it? Share it. Get the Share on Facebook widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( More info )Like it.