December 2010
ching28 asked: hi miss marj! happy new year!!!!!!
ching28 asked: hi miss marj! happy new year!!!!!!
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Rosario
jamesjimenez:
At the end of the movie, stick around as the credits start to roll and you’ll see a picture of the real Rosario. Jennylyn Mercado’s pretty enough to do her justice, but the real Rosario’s eyes have an ineffable sadness about them that you just can’t see in the eyes of the actress.
I can imagine.
Rosario’s story is a bummer, which makes it almost an original in a movie landscape...
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i'm almost done
…with our new year’s “feast” - this means i’m about to take the last bath for the year 2010 hahaha.
My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...
– Patricia Highsmith, New Year’s Eve, 1947 (via mlq3)
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On Rizal and revolutions...and a new year
iwriteasiwrite:
ellobofilipino:
I think what Rizal would have wanted to happen in the Philippines was what Gandhi later did in India through active non-violence, and what Martin Luther King did for Civil Rights. These two struggles as well as the ideas espoused by Rizal would also eventually be adopted and illustrated by Mandela, Walesa, Havel, Ninoy Aquino and several other leaders who choose...
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thankful for 2010
highlights of my year:
*january - i was the top rep for a gps account (customer service)
*february - a month full of hate, fought my shift manager through tumblr
*march - served my last 30 days at work, signed my contract with ibm
*april - started life as an IBMer
*may - did not vote during the elections
*june - the parents went to iran
*july - :)
*august - mitch turned 9
*september -...
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To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.
– Calvin & Hobbes (via quote-book)
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2011 in a few hours
kalinangan-atbp:
I just would like to say to my followers, especially to my tumblarkada (Nik, Kim, Marj, Arsenio — can I just call you RC? — Kelvene, and Joseph — even though he doesn’t follow me but we follow each other on twitter), I’m so happy I met you late this year. My senior year would be crap without your awesomeness.
I shall drink a whole bottle of some alcoholic drink (whatever’s...
alexies asked: Thanks you for posting those vintage Rizal Day photos. :)
@ coffeebean, waiting for @kelvene
…while waiting, i’m gonna read. Yeah right hahaha.
I have a feeling he’s the guy on the other table. I want to burst out laughing but baka mamaya hindi pala hahaha.
alexies asked: Thanks you for posting those vintage Rizal Day photos. :)
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The First Celebration (Part 1)
iwriteasiwrite:
The celebration of Rizal Day was our first ‘national’ patriotic holiday. It antedates by decades other remembrances for heroes (and our nation) past. The men who knew him, who fought with him for a rising Filipino nationalism, believed more strongly in what he stood for then, than we do today. If anything, time has not embedded Rizal, his beliefs and values, in our collective...
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The Subversion of Rizal (Part II)
iwriteasiwrite:
One thing I have always heard about Rizal is that he is the thinking man’s hero. Because he is our national hero, it demonstrates without doubt that we value the pen before the sword. We don’t. We don’t know Rizal. And in truth, we don’t honor the depth of his contributions or the quality of his philosophy. Instead we lift snippets of his writings, in the process twisting them to...
Si Rizal at ang Pilosopiya ng Pagtitiis →
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography,...
– Truman Capote (via mlq3)
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Rizal's death was no trigger →
margoism: (link to my post. title will route you to the source/original text) thanks for the insight~*
iwriteasiwrite:
I cry BS on the Rizal reformist trope. Rizal was not a reformist at that point in his life. That was put to bed quite expertly by Schumacher:
If so, by the time he brought the novel into its final form, he had already opted for ultimate separation from Spain. Since Spain...
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Why Ambeth? Why?
iwriteasiwrite:
ellobofilipino:
Ironically though, I saw some post floating around Tumblr about Ambeth Ocampo objecting to Rizal Day being celebrated on another day. Weird that that someone who objects to changing the date of the holiday is allegedly responsible for painting the hero’s home green.
It’s an oddity, I agree. I remember his defense behind his decision was basically that he...
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The 12 Gifts of Christmas 2010
buhaymakulay:
Though Christmas day has come and gone, the spirit of giving has not yet come to rest!
The Buhay Makulay Children’s Project Inc. is still in the middle of its yuletide fundraiser - the 12 Gifts of Christmas! This year, all proceeds will benefit families living with HIV/AIDS in the Philippines.
It’s not too late to make a contribution! For a minimum donation of P300, you receive a...
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Rizal's death was no trigger →
i don’t really agree with everything - actually, i don’t agree with armed struggle. maybe i’m just sleepy and feel uncomfortable with the repetition of the word “arms” towards the last few paragraphs…just sharing other people’s point of view on the significance of jose rizal in the present.
As an historiographer, let me correct the popular perception...
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