Mindanao Week of Peace 2008 is on the go

The 2008 Mindanao Week of Peace (MWOP) is on the 27th of November to December 3.

It is but a sad truth that Mindanao has been engulfed with very biased views. It the view of a land of warring people. But that's is not always the case. So this time the concern people of the archipelago initiated a Week of Peace, a week of harmony, harmony to the land, rhythm to the diverse culture, respect to the tribal people, and hymn to the order of living.

Actually I just recently heard about this event the last day. It was just a fine ordinary day to me, when surprisingly I was told by one of our teacher in the school to attend a Essay Writing Contest regarding this noble event. My mood that time was not obviously with writing, it was of an ordinary cheerful school day. I have to choice but to agree, anyway it will be ,again, a learning session for me. But everything went fine when I was on the actual venue of the contest. When I arrived there, the staff give me a pin(that one in the picture), well they don't explain anything about that.

As the event goes on, I learned that it was a pre-week activity. An activity conducted before the MWOP. And just before that day, another event was conducted, it was a poster-making contest. Anyway, there are lots of activities still to be commenced. For more information about the contest click here.

The Essay Writing contest flows good. It was attended by a number of school. But I was just amaze on the staff of the event on how they persuade us to write a free-lance essay, it wasn't ordinary. The staff asks us to write a proposal essay in any language we are comfortable with, and that is about how the youth could partake sincere contributions to the peace and order situation in Mindanao. Luckily I succeed in writing a piece, surely it will not win.haha

But the core idea of the event is indeed noble. In its intention, its vision and its mission. Hope all of us will be sensitive to the peacefulness of our beloved island, the Mindanao. And I would like to quote the closing remarks of the emcee.

" The people who best travel the road are those that assures the next traveler's convenience"

May God bless us all.

Joey Ayala to perform on Munato Festival '08

Yeah that is absolutely true. Joey Ayala will perform on Munato Festival.

Well, last day I was called by one of my classmate and ask me to buy a ticket regarding the concert of Mr. Joey Ayala in our Munato Festival 2008, the theme this year is Ang Galing mo Sarangan (You are good Sarangan).I am not an avid fan of him, but I'd heard and read some awesome things about him. So just I always do ,I surf the net for information about Mr. Joey Ayala and I'm amazed on who really was him. And then I remember my physics teacher is a fan of him. This are the things I've found.

Joey Ayala (born June 1, 1956) is a contemporary pop music artist in the Philippines. He is well known for his style of music that combines the sounds of Filipino ethnic instruments with modern pop music. His professional music career started when he released an album recorded in a makeshift-studio in 1982. To date, he has released six albums.
Some of the Filipino ethnic instruments Ayala is known to use include the two-stringed Hegalong of the T'Boli people of Mindanao and the 8-piece gong set, Kulintang melodical gong-rack of the predominantly Muslim peoples of the southern part of the country. He also uses modern instruments in his music, such as the electric guitar, bass guitar, and drums.
He is one of the few Filipino contemporary songwriters who insists on putting his creative energies at the service of cultural/social development, so much so that he has ventured directly in to non-formal education - the running of workshops demonstrating the use of arts as a language for education.

[edit] Awards and Honors Received:
Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Award for Social Artistry, Federation of Catholic Schools’ Alumni/ae Associations (FeCaSAA)in partnership with the Good Citizenship Movement [GCM], 2007
Musical Intelligence Award, Multiple Intelligence International School, 2007
Datu Bago Award from The City of Davao (“for being an outstanding composer-performer-bandleader-lyricist, arranger, writer who has defined the ethnic character of Mindanao music that he renders magnificently well using his voice and indigenous instruments resulting in the consciousness of the Filipino soul of intimations of its moral values and environmental responsibilities.”) Awarded March 14, 2000, 63rd Araw ng Dabaw, Marco Polo Hotel.
Special MAGIS Award for Outstanding Alumni, Ateneo de Manila High School (, “For creating music that delineates the unique Filipino soul, for defining the ethnic character of Philippine music through the use of native instruments, especially in harmony with foreign instruments like drums and acoustic guitar, and for awakening in the Filipino an awareness of its own heritage as a people . . .”), 1996
Gawad ng Pagkilala - Komisyon sa Wikang Pilipino. Recognition from the National Commission for the Filipino Language (Dahil sa paglikha ng mga awiting mayaman sa pagpapahalagang moral sa wikang Filipino at paglalapat ng musika sa pamamagitan ng katutubong mga instrumento.... nakatutulong sa pagpapayabong at pagpapaunlad ng wika at kalinangang Pilipino. [For writing songs laden with moral values in Pilipino, for musical arrangements using indigenous instruments . . . for helping enrich and develop Pilipino culture.]), 1993
Outstanding Alumnus in the field of the Performing Arts, Ateneo de Davao University Alumni Association, 1993
Nomination: Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World, Award for Cultural Achievement, Junior Jaycees Chamber International, 1993
The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) Award, The Philippine Jaycees, (“for humanitarian efforts directed towards the two objectives of art - as relevant socially-oriented medium and as aesthetic principle”), 1989

[edit] Albums
Panganay ng Umaga (Firstborn of the Morning)
Magkabilaan (Dichotomies)
Mga Awit ng Tanod-lupa (Songs of the Earth-Guardian)
Lumad sa Síyudad (Native in the City)
Lupa't Langit (Earth and Heaven)
16lovesongs
Awit ng Magdaragat (Song of the Seafarer)
Organik
Basta May Saging (As Long as Theres Bananas!)
JoeyAyala: RAW
Encantada (Music from a Ballet Philippines dance-drama, 1992.)

(Informations are affirmed to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Ayala)

See! Mr. Joey Ayala's concert is something to be worth to spend a few bucks of. So Don't be surprised when you see me in the concert.haha

Why do I blog? A confession

Yeah why do I blog?

Or let's put it in the majority,why do everyone else blog? Really, why? Maybe for the monetizing scheme it offer. Or maybe to the public pulpit it caters. Or to influence other thoughts. But me,why do I blog?

I hear the word blogging not for so long. It has been ,now, three months. Yes and though I still put myself always into this virtual world I just can't get the thing in here. What does that mean? Well, I learn blogging as a way of making money, that was then. I just can't see the foundation of this vast building, or to put it mildly I can't thrive this world. I can't level those on the top. I don't get the page I wanted. I can't write the way I wanted. I can't seem to shout to the world what I really feels. And I don't see her knowing my efforts.

I have to see thing through. I've got to be transparent,as my friends always say. How's that actually? How in the world I will be transparent when everything else blocks my horizon. When every problem I encounter blur my insights. Still now I finding my true talent, if there is? I still guessing if writing was really my true ability. Writing is fun, but every time someone criticizes me, the public sees me accepting it and learning from it, well actually it builds the boulder in me that trying to break me down. Talking about talents. Do I have one? I try topping in the class, but I don't feel what would a normal person should feel. Yes I am happy to see my parents smile when I present them flattering grades. But in the true sense , do I deserve it? For me a big NO. Someone else working hard more deserve it, or do I just saying that because now I can't top the class. Right now it seems impossible to get the award my parents hopefully I will get. That's the just the true pressure in me right now, to make my parents proud of me. Most parents actually don't appreciate their children's full effort on making them proud and say "this is my child".

In the lover's dimension, I seem not to see any gold pot at the end of the rainbow, there is no rainbow in the first place.huhu. I don't actually know what's a lover should feel. And then everyone , those that think their the witful persons on earth, yell to me that I am very young to thronged this complicated "love". Oh yeah a sixteen-year old teen like me is young. My vibrant features jeopardize my tomorrow. But in the reality, someway around at the end of the road I will still face that dilemma. So is it wrong at this very young stage to learn a little in this world? No it isn't.

Hahayzz, sorry guys if this post is a nonsense confession of a brat like me. I just can't really take the things happening in the world now. This post had been changing direction, sorry for that. But I just wanna sung the colorful side of things.

Blogging had brought me wisdom. Wisdom to see things lightly. Blogging lift my spirit high and inflates my self-esteem. Blogging has just becoming a true opportunity. Blogging did a lot of of changes in me. Yes blogging had a lot to offer, but somehow, someway, blogging is just a resemblance of life. Just don't let the light put off, if you still want to see the world. Hehe

Walking under the rain

It is supposedly a literal walk under the rain but ,you know, everything don't come as you most expect it.

Walking in the rain is fun. Especially when the one walking with you is someone. But that doesn't mean it's forever, actually it's just for minutes.

Our feet is the asphalt road of the city

As the the puffy cottons in the sky is crying

But more than you know, my heart is in the happiest dimension in the world

It's just like when Aristotle yell" Eureka" , it was everything


The windows of my exhilarating soul are penetrating on your magnificent being

Every step I would like to be forever

But in the most realism in the world, It's just a mere imagination

But in all imagination I'd make, it's the best


And every time you turn your face when I ask purposely nonsense questions

Thought you should know my spirit is lift-up really high

Even ecstasy can never be an exchange

Cause in my very me, everything can never vie


And as the walk soon ended, the actual reason was never paid

But the butterflies around me fluffed in speed of mach number 2

And it almost got me in the middle air

But in most cases often it did, you never saw the existence it offers, too


And the reality covers again the dimensions of my world

And that day soon faded

As again the usual aroma between us is in the aisle

But the memoirs on that walk never was said


And yes, that momentary glimpse of heaven for me still is true

But for you, it was just mere favor I ask from you

Sweet moments are meant to be treasured

In the reality in you, it never was single woe


Hahayzz. That maybe can sum it up. It was really something for me. But soon it ended. And you seem not to mind it. I'm not really emotion-ventilator, but it just feels so good to free it from me. And the title goes, it was a walk under the rain, it's madly fun but you know it'll gonna make you sick.haha

My new Template

Hooray to my new template!

Hooray, hooray nyahahaha. Yehey after series of failures and sleepless hours, at last my new picked up template works. Well I've been searching for a new theme for my blog but unfortunately there are lots of themes but not even suit my taste. That is not to say that I am choosy, the truth is I'm not. I just don't get the lay-out I"ve been longing for. I am not conscious about my template color or whatsoever I just want to find a reader-friendly theme and a workable lay-out ,those that really offers a lot of things. So finally I found one, its not really that professional but I guess you will like this, just in case.haha

Please just comment on what you feel about my new template because I'm planning to stick for it for months, so it'll be better if I hear other opinions about my new template.

well this template we'll not be such without my friend, Mr. Drobert Latasa, you can also check his site, the link is located at the left side of my sidebar.