Moving On From That Tourist Bus Hostage Crisis & That Loss Of The Ms. Universe -Crown by the Beauteous Ms. Venus Raj


Being originally from the Philippines, and having spent almost 40 years of this blogger's life back in that beautiful archipelago (of +7,100 islands!), he can't helped but be stressed by what's he's been hearing of his Mother country (from where he's located now in NYC, USA, where news on the Philippines are, almost always, given different treatment). Lately, news have not been that great, but at the same time, we're grateful most bad things have been over----(though admittedly much easier said than done) it's time, again, to learn the valuable lessons we can pick up, and promise ourselves again to do better this time. A good friend from high school days remarked (Allan Bernardo), and this blogger could very well agree:
There are consequences to stupid thoughts, decisions, and actions. These must fully acknowledged so that those who made the stupid acts and everyone witnessing can learn. It is mistake to belittle these consequences of stupidity. Saying "pasensiya na, tao lang" (roughly translated to: "sorry. we all make mistakes, we're only humans") condemns us to mediocrity and incompetence.
I could only fully well agree! And now, if we only have the chance to always see things in hindsight, and learn from our collective mistakes....

And life, apparently, goes on! What else can we do? Inputs, feedback on these are highly appreciated.

Click on some snippets, links, videos worth watching and sharing (funny, empathetic, irreverent!), just as to help everyone concerned on these issues to realize, and start working (again!) on the process of moving on:

Officials Admit Failings in Manila Hostage Standoff

video of Manila hostage drama

Jackie Chan's tweets on the hostage crisis


Andrew Philip's "Equality"


Making Sense of Ms Philippines's 'Major Major'

The Philippine Bus and Miss Universe

Filipino Queens Watching Venus Raj

Comments

hippiechick said…
Hello. I'm interested in your statement that the news from the Philippines is given different treatment. I am not trying to be snarky or mean or anything of the sort. I am interested to know your perspective.

How is the news from the Philippines different than other news? Is that compared to the US news or in regards to other countries?
1:17 PM
hippiechick said…
I also enjoyed this commentary on the Miss Universe situation.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/08/major_major.html

Thank you for sharing.
2:13 PM
dyerohmeb said…
Hi, Katie
thanks for taking time to read this blog. re "news from d philippines being given different treatment" ---this has been an ongoing observation from the biggest newspapers here in d US (where i'm based now, specifically NYC). chances are, you'll only get to read news about d Philippines when d news is all about "tragedy, death, corruption, typhoons, election miscounting"---anything that's just "bad news." for example, there were occasions when the former President GMA visited d US, there was nary a mention about these visits---& on 1 occasion when she was around, a huge typhoon was taking place in the Philippines that brought destruction---this piece was instead reported in d NYT----so what do you make of it? similar situations have happened before. mind you, am not a fan of GMA at all---it would have been proper for NYT to report, even just a tiny one, on GMA visit, & at d same time, print that news, too, on d typhoon. well, i guess, "beggars can't be choosers" as they say. readers, like me, notice these things---after so many years of reading broadsheets, you get a feel of how news are treated by publishers & editors. i'm just glad we got blogging these days---at least, the smallest news get chances of being reported or published. i don't actually wonder why d biggest, most influential broadsheets are losing their readership---most of their publishers & editors have their own agenda when it comes to deciding what's fit to report (according to their tastes, standards)---i pretty much respect that, but at a certain point in time, readers like to see complete perspective, preferably, at least, the more fully, truthful treatment of perspective (though i know it's nearly impossible to present what's really truthful, as d "truth" can be really discomforting, hurting to most).

thanks again!
1:53 PM
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