Thursday, September 18, 2008
My Malabon
PAPER CLIPS INVASION
Superwomom's Notes:
Song snippets courtesy of the following artists
Yellow by Coldplay
Sunlight by Kevin Lettau
I'm Coming Out by Diana Ross
Umbrella by Lilla Syster
Drive by Incubus
Accidentally in Love by Counting Crows
ABS-CBN Theme by Fred Ferraz
Happy Birthday, Tatay!
Thank you for your wisdom. I wouldn’t have known a lot of things if not for the stories and lessons you’ve shared.
I’m proud of what you have become and I’m grateful for the fact that I can share a lot of things with you and I can consult anything under the sun with you.
I hope that like you, I’ll be able to advance my career without stepping on anyone. May I also be wise and logical in a lot of ways. And lastly, may I affect the lives of my children the way you affected yours. I love you Tatay. I guess, loving you would be my greatest gift. May Rainie be inspired with my life the way I am inspired by yours. Happy Birthday.
Love always,
Rok
Better Philippines
A Philippines where Filipinos would opt to be homebound because they can see a brighter future here.
where children have equal access to education.
where government officials put their electorates’ priorities on top of their own.
where Filipinos are proud of what they have become as a nation.
I saw a youtube video about Times of India’s India vs. India. This was a campaign launched by India’s most widely circulated national daily – Times of India. I was so envious because they were able to launch a massive campaign that aims unite the whole of India. This appeared on the front page of Times of India last January 1, 2007. I hope that in 2010, we’ll start to realize that it’s our time to fly. Below is the full transcript of the essay and the Youtube link.
There are two Indias in this country.
One India is straining at the leash, eager to spring forth
and live up to all the adjectives that the world has been showering recently upon us.
The other India is the leash.
One India says, give me a chance and I'll prove myself.
The other India says, prove yourself first and maybe then you'll have a chance.
One India lives in the optimism of our hearts.
The other India lurks in the skepticism of our minds.
One India wants.
The other India hopes.
One India leads.
The other India follows.
But conversions are on the rise.
With each passing day more and more prople from the other India
have been coming over to this side.
And quietly, while the world is not looking,
a pulsating, dynamic, new India is emerging.
An India whose faith in success is far greater that its fear of failure.
An India that no longer boycotts foreign-made goods
but buys out the companies that make them instead.
History, they say, is a bad motorist.
It rarely every signals its intentions when it is taking a turn.
This is that rarely-ever moment.
History is turning a page.
For more than a century, our nation has sprung,
stumbled, run, fallen, rolled over, got up, dusted herself and cantered,
sometimes lurched on.
But today, as we begin our 60th year as a free nation,
the ride has brought us to the edge of time's great precipice.
And one India - a tiny little voice at the back of the head-
is looking down at the bottom of the ravine and hesitating.
The other India is looking up at the sky and saying, it's time to fly.
YOUTUBE LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgHyjMgPi2Q
Monday, September 15, 2008
For Country
Friday, September 5, 2008
YOUR MISSION IN LIFE
That makes sense. For me it's educating children. It gives me great happiness to be able to teach and reach out to them - whether it be through storytelling or selling books or teaching them through play. And the hunger in world, meaning, that void that I need to fill is definitely on education. I hope that day would come when Filipino children would be granted equal access to good education. And I would try my best to contribute, to use my God-given talent to create and educate.
SUPERWOMOM'S TOP 5 - West Side Story
West Side Story is the tragic story of lovers Tony and Maria who were caught in the middle of warring gangs - the all-white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Tony is a gang member from the Jets while Maria is the sister of the Shark's main man. Theirs was a modern day Romeo and Juliet set in New York's Manhattan. Featuring Christian Baustista as Tony and Joanna Ampil as Maria, The West Side Story opened yesterday (September 4) with a formal gala premiere at the Meralco Theater in Ortigas. This specific show was for the benefit of Bayanijuan (an ABS-CBN initiative to help the country's poorest of the poor).
SUPERWOMOM'S NOTES:
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Artist on Impulse
I never considered myself to be an artist. NEVER. But something in me these past few days made me think of that. I never really tried being an artist. I couldn't draw nor paint decently. When I mean decently, I mean according to society's perception of what is an art piece. But I have colors in my head. Colors that I knew I would want to see on canvas. It was probably serendipity that I needed to go to National Bookstore to buy some props for a work-related video shoot. Then, on impulse, I decided that I wanted to try some painting. I bought an acid free sketch book, a set of oil pastels, brushes and water color pencils. I think it was one of my boldest moves to conquer the fear of scrutiny, of rejection, of ridicule. I wanted the colors in my head to be translated on paper no matter what other people would say. So here they are. A pigment of my artistic self. Five "art pieces" done in a day (with three made just before the break of dawn while my husband and daughter are asleep).


I remember in the movie Cutting Edge, Kate Mosley (played by Moira Kelly) told Doug Dorsey (D.B. Sweeney) these lines, "Nobody tells me what I can and can't do." That's feisty. But I think that's the right attitude in every endeavor. No one has the license to size you up. The possibilities are limitless. Everything is entirely dependent on one's self.
P.S. Thanks to my daughter who always prod me to join her in her painting sessions. I think she inspired me to think that I too have a little artist in me.
