By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Every year, it has been customary to come up with New Year’s resolutions. It’s as if the turn of the year would bring about a new person. But this has become a standing joke as most New Year’s resolutions are hardly complied with. And most New Year’s resolutions are repeated year…
Month: January 2012
Panitikan ng kulturang popular: popular na anxiedad at ang arkipelagong espasyo
Ni Roland Tolentino Bulatlat.com Sa unang libro ng tula ni Adam David, sa El Bimbo Variations, ginamit niya ang unang dalawang linya ng ikonikong awit ng Eraserheads, at sumulat ng 99 na variations nito. Parang Buddhist mantra (Om Mani Padme Hum) na paulit-ulit lang ang pagbigkas sa iba’t ibang paraan, naghahanap ng perfektong kapamaraan ng…
Photo of the week: Too heavy for Baguio
Baguio residential houses increased tremendously which showed that the carrying capacity for the city is now too heavy. Developed by the colonial Americans for 25,000 people, the city has a present population of more than 300,000. The absence of a Comprehensive Development Plan pushes residents to establish shelter even in unstable areas where landslides usually…
Street Shooter: Explosion
A young reveler is profiled and silhouetted as he jumps and fireworks explode in the background. (Quezon City, Philippines)
Detained NDFP consultant decries attempted transfer, repressive measures
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA –On January 5, jail authorities at the Philippine National Police (PNP) Custodial Center at Camp Crame attempted to transfer Alan Jazmines, a consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) to Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City. According to the letter of PNP Chief Nicanor Bartolome recommending the…
Malacañang-imposed restrictions mar Freedom of Information bill
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – President Benigno S. Aquino III finally gave the green light for the Malacañang version of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill. According to a report, Undersecretary Manuel Quezon III of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) said at a news briefing Thursday: “In our discussions…
Rule makers and rule breakers
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Ethical and professional issues so beset the Philippine media that hardly a month passes without some controversy erupting over how a media organization covered or commented on an event, and/or discharged its entertainment function. The flaws of media coverage have sometimes been lethal enough to kill people,…
U.P. kilos and tulong kabataan
U.P. kilos and tulong kabataan(Photo by Jhun Dantes)
YEARENDER: The ailing education system and the K + 12 that is doomed to fail
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“Even if the curriculum is changed but the existing problems of shortages are not addressed, quality education will still not be attained.” – France Castro, Alliance of Concerned Teachers
Still struggling to teach with so little
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“Not only is it a dishonor, it is also an injustice to our teachers to teach amid conditions of scarcity and slave-like compensation. This is something that President Aquino should have learned in his years of study in Ateneo.” – Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan
Prometheus Bound: Science in 2011
By Giovanni Tapang, PhD Bulatlat.com The leading scientific journals usually have a year end issue that summarizes the year that was in science. Science magazine has hailed the AIDS treatment therapy study HPTN 052 of Myron Cohen and collaborators as its Breakthrough of the Year. This clinical study showed lowered infection rates of HIV-1 (by…