Slow day because I choose it to be one. I have many things to do but I choose not to act on them. Lazy is my middle name. I also answer to "amotivated" every now and then. What's bugging me today? These, below, among other things:
1. Binay's ratings are up. He is the only one among public officials to have positive results from the efforts for media mileage every chance he could get. Damn it! We are really hopeless at this. No critical thinking at all but mere recall of prominent names, oft-mentioned names. What did he actually do to deserve our recall?
2. The Marcoses threatening a Malacanang comeback. #NeverAgain. I repeat #NeverAgain. If you do not understand my stand, you are either a member of a family that lived through martial law years virtually undisturbed or you did not take your history classes seriously or you did not have very good history teachers. In any of these cases, shame on you!
3. Media and media exposure-hungry personlaities who are making the news for rushing to file impeachment raps against PNoy and Abad. I hope you are as rabid with GMA and her ilk, with Pogi, Tanda and Sexy and with the Marcoses. If not, you are paid hacks and I have a good guess who is financing you.
4. Educators kuno who do not understand Kto12 and who belittle the Dep-Ed's efforts at it: you do not know your field or profession. You do not understand why we have to go thru this curriculum shift. Worse, you regard education as a business enterprise and that's all.
5. Those who support the English Only Policy in schools: Shame on you! I may be an English teacher but I teach English so we can be better at defending ourselves as Filipinos especially in international settings. I do not allow the language to enslave my thoughts. English is a language . It is just one of the many prominent languages we can opt to study and be competent in. If you still penalize students for speaking in their mother tongue in school, you should be the one punished for violating the constitution.
6. TV was called an idiot box or a boob tube because in its early years it was regarded as something that makes people stupid. Please, PH TV, let us not continue to make this a sad reality in local TV. From the news to the teleseryes, let us have material and content that regard viewers as thinking individuals and not just captive market for poorly written stuff.
7. Haters and bashers who troll into celebs accounts to do their thing: you ought to realize that technology is oh so wasted on you. A poor child with many potentials could have achieved greater things given your access to the Internet. The awful digital divide . Many who have access to the www shouldn't even have been entrusted with a PC or gadget at all. This includes all those pushers of senseless trending HTs when many other important advocacies should be in our minds.
8. Grammar gurus who pounce on a celeb for committing an error or two. They are not media entities that need to proofread everything before they publish. Only in the PH, slaves to the English language, most of us are, that we are so mean on each other over errors that native speakers do not even care about. Yan tayo e.
Rant, rant, rant. If I could lose weight doing this, I'd be as slim as Isabelle Miravelez in a day or two.
Not everybody is given a chance to speak or say what's on her mind OL. This is my forum. Thanks for reading through. I feel better now.
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