I am amazed by the response of readers to my previous post entitled: The Positive Side of Filipino Values that the last time I looked this particular post surged up to the top spot as the most visited post daily in «The Grey Chronicles»!
I started this blog to partially publish all the excised portions from my master’s thesis originally entitled: Flat Carbon Steel Production of National Steel Corporation (NSC) from its Privatization in 1995 to its Liquidation in 1999. At least, the original plan was: why waste the persistent effort and numerous research time I taught was essential for the thesis that instead of throwing them away, literally clicking the files to delete then empty the Recycle Bin, why not post it here so that others might find some use for it.
Yet, being a Filipino, as proud as any Filipino could be, I cannot help myself but sometimes write about a topic much closer to my heart—the Pinoyness of Filipinos. All that jazz and other stuff: steel making, information security, management, etc., although the primary reasons for this blog’s debut last 18 June 2008, is now, apparently, being overshadowed by that post on Filipino values. Only recently though that «The Grey Chronicles» passed the 100 visitors per day, as a self-imposed benchmark for its continuance for another year.
Furthermore, the highest number of readers commenting comes not in reaction to those other posts but rather on this particular one. I really wonder why? Today, an irate reader, a certain !!SEcREtlY coNceRn!! using capital letters, tantamount to shouting at the top of his/her lungs in the World Wide Web, wrote that the “blog [sic] is totally opposite what Filipino is.” Then added that for my information:
“… THE ONE WHO WRITE [sic] THESE [sic] WORST BLOG [sic] I HAVE EVER READ FILIPINOS HAVE ALREADY VALUES EDUCATION AND THEY USE IT ON [sic] THEIR DAILY LIVES EVEN ON [sic] THE PRE-SCHOOL STAGE THEY HAVE IT ALREADY SO IT JUST MEANS THAT YOU ARE TELLING SUCH WRONG INFORMATIONS [sic] ABOUT THE FILIPINOS YOU SUCK!!!LIER [sic]!!!”
As a matter of fact, I simply replied: “I guess I do have the advantage of knowing the truth first-hand, while you are basing your arguments on second-hand knowledge. Furthermore, I believe you totally missed the point in this blog.” Then urge the commenter to kindly re-read the post again, please, before shouting. At last count, only four commenters got the point.
Note : I apologize for decorating the above quotes with [sic], but in WordPress parlance, a blog hosts a series of posts. Thus, if the particular comment was for a particular post, it does not necessarily mean that this — yes, the appropriate pronoun should be singular — blog in its entirety would be “worst”. In all probabilities, giving the reader benefit of doubt, I might be wrong with this conclusion. Also, the fact that the original post was written five months ago in March, thus, the appropriate verb should either be wrote or had written. Values Education, unlike a shirt or a dress, is not used on, but rather in their lives even during, not on, the pre-school stage. If my journalism tutor was right, I believe information takes a singular form, be it referring to a singular message or a collection of facts. Of course, deducing from the comment’s line of screaming thought, the misspelling of liar is quite obvious.
Incidentally, prior to this commotion, a few others commented that the 28 March 2009 post was not in any way the positive values, but rather dealt with the negative ones. I thought my reply-comment settled it by emphasizing the prospect of seeing these Filipino values in a positive light rather than taking them all in as purely negatives. I also explained, although I once thought that the post was self-explanatory, that I have not declared that the mentioned Filipino behavior or traits, depending on which school of thought you lean to, were positive values per se; but rather offered another way of looking at it. Another one asked where was the positive values? Huh? In that post, it also contained a Notes section, which purposely invited meticulous readers to refer for themselves. I do recommend Quito’s paper (1994), the same link is provided below.
If anyone doubts it, I declare here that with God as my witness, [the Filipino’s bahala na attitude again], I am a true-blue, brown-skinned, black-haired (with receding hairline), through-and-through Filipino! Aside from the human race, Filipino is the only race that I belonged and always will be. Both my parents can trace all the genealogical paths leading to my forebears when Governor General Claveria declared that all Indios would sport a surname. Fortunately for my lineage, our surname was not one of those that would be too difficult for the Spaniards to pronounce or be laughed at by fellow Filipinos [the Filipino’s hiya attitude again].
I was born here, my beloved country, the Philippines, the native land of Lapu-Lapu, Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Gabriela Silang, Ninoy Aquino, Cory Aquino, Cardinal Sin, Flor Contemplacion, Lean Alejandro, and a host of prominent others who died for its freedom and various causes. It is also a nation where Joker Arroyo, Lea Salonga, or Diosdado P. Banatao and the multitude of Overseas Filipino Workers come home to defend the Filipino rights, to be proud of its heritage and its love for music and dance, to invest in its people after making it big worldwide, or just to be with their families again after a long absence to savor the fruits of their sacrifices and toils.
Lest we forget, mi patria adorada is also the birth place of Ferdinand E. Marcos, Jose Ma. Sison, Joseph Ejercito “Erap” Estrada, or Nur Misuari and a horde of others who sees differently how the country should be governed, practice democracy, be plundered its riches, or be partitioned based on religion; and blame others, instead of constructive criticism, for their lot.
Except for some carefully chosen comments, maybe a spur of the moment, or possibly a slip of the pen or tongue, I cannot speak ill of or about the land of my birth. I remain, Proudly Pinoy!
Notes:
Quito, Emerita S. (1994). The Ambivalence of Filipino Traits and Values, Values in Philippine Culture and Education, Philippine Philosophical Studies I. Manuel B. Dy, Jr., (ed.) Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1994. 205p. back to text
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The Positive Side of Filipino Values, Reprise
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I am amazed by the response of readers to my previous post entitled: The Positive Side of Filipino Values that the last time I looked this particular post surged up to the top spot as the most visited post daily in «The Grey Chronicles»!
I started this blog to partially publish all the excised portions from my master’s thesis originally entitled: Flat Carbon Steel Production of National Steel Corporation (NSC) from its Privatization in 1995 to its Liquidation in 1999. At least, the original plan was: why waste the persistent effort and numerous research time I taught was essential for the thesis that instead of throwing them away, literally clicking the files to delete then empty the Recycle Bin, why not post it here so that others might find some use for it.
Furthermore, the highest number of readers commenting comes not in reaction to those other posts but rather on this particular one. I really wonder why? Today, an irate reader, a certain !!SEcREtlY coNceRn!! using capital letters, tantamount to shouting at the top of his/her lungs in the World Wide Web, wrote that the “blog [sic] is totally opposite what Filipino is.” Then added that for my information:
As a matter of fact, I simply replied: “I guess I do have the advantage of knowing the truth first-hand, while you are basing your arguments on second-hand knowledge. Furthermore, I believe you totally missed the point in this blog.” Then urge the commenter to kindly re-read the post again, please, before shouting. At last count, only four commenters got the point.
Note : I apologize for decorating the above quotes with [sic], but in WordPress parlance, a blog hosts a series of posts. Thus, if the particular comment was for a particular post, it does not necessarily mean that this — yes, the appropriate pronoun should be singular — blog in its entirety would be “worst”. In all probabilities, giving the reader benefit of doubt, I might be wrong with this conclusion. Also, the fact that the original post was written five months ago in March, thus, the appropriate verb should either be wrote or had written. Values Education, unlike a shirt or a dress, is not used on, but rather in their lives even during, not on, the pre-school stage. If my journalism tutor was right, I believe information takes a singular form, be it referring to a singular message or a collection of facts. Of course, deducing from the comment’s line of screaming thought, the misspelling of liar is quite obvious.
Incidentally, prior to this commotion, a few others commented that the 28 March 2009 post was not in any way the positive values, but rather dealt with the negative ones. I thought my reply-comment settled it by emphasizing the prospect of seeing these Filipino values in a positive light rather than taking them all in as purely negatives. I also explained, although I once thought that the post was self-explanatory, that I have not declared that the mentioned Filipino behavior or traits, depending on which school of thought you lean to, were positive values per se; but rather offered another way of looking at it. Another one asked where was the positive values? Huh? In that post, it also contained a Notes section, which purposely invited meticulous readers to refer for themselves. I do recommend Quito’s paper (1994), the same link is provided below.
If anyone doubts it, I declare here that with God as my witness, [the Filipino’s bahala na attitude again], I am a true-blue, brown-skinned, black-haired (with receding hairline), through-and-through Filipino! Aside from the human race, Filipino is the only race that I belonged and always will be. Both my parents can trace all the genealogical paths leading to my forebears when Governor General Claveria declared that all Indios would sport a surname. Fortunately for my lineage, our surname was not one of those that would be too difficult for the Spaniards to pronounce or be laughed at by fellow Filipinos [the Filipino’s hiya attitude again].
I was born here, my beloved country, the Philippines, the native land of Lapu-Lapu, Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Gabriela Silang, Ninoy Aquino, Cory Aquino, Cardinal Sin, Flor Contemplacion, Lean Alejandro, and a host of prominent others who died for its freedom and various causes. It is also a nation where Joker Arroyo, Lea Salonga, or Diosdado P. Banatao and the multitude of Overseas Filipino Workers come home to defend the Filipino rights, to be proud of its heritage and its love for music and dance, to invest in its people after making it big worldwide, or just to be with their families again after a long absence to savor the fruits of their sacrifices and toils.
Lest we forget, mi patria adorada is also the birth place of Ferdinand E. Marcos, Jose Ma. Sison, Joseph Ejercito “Erap” Estrada, or Nur Misuari and a horde of others who sees differently how the country should be governed, practice democracy, be plundered its riches, or be partitioned based on religion; and blame others, instead of constructive criticism, for their lot.
Except for some carefully chosen comments, maybe a spur of the moment, or possibly a slip of the pen or tongue, I cannot speak ill of or about the land of my birth. I remain, Proudly Pinoy!
Notes:
Quito, Emerita S. (1994). The Ambivalence of Filipino Traits and Values, Values in Philippine Culture and Education, Philippine Philosophical Studies I. Manuel B. Dy, Jr., (ed.) Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1994. 205p. back to text
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