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2008 CANDON CITY FIESTA ACTIVITIES PDF Print E-mail
Written by City Information Office   
2008 CANDON CITY FIESTA ACTIVITIES
Day   TIME ACTIVITY/HIGHLIGHTS VENUE
Day 0 March 8, 2008 11am PRESS CONFERENCE Rembrandt Hotel
  (Saturday)   * All Sponsors, City Government, VIP's & Guests  
Day 1 March 25, 2008 8am Thanksgiving Mass San Juan Sahagun Parish
  (Tuesday) 10am Wreathlaying Plaza
    1030am Motorcade of all sponsors Citywide
    1030am Opening of Trade Fair  Plaza
      Opening of Food & Beer Festival Marina Street
    8pm Administration Night - Brgy. Cultural Presentation Candon Civic Center
Day 2 March 26, 2008 8am Dep Ed Day Candon Civic Center
  (Wednesday)    - Marching Band Competition CSCS Grounds
    10am Ms. Virginia Tobacco Talent Competition City Hall
    8pm Search for Ms. Gay 2008 Candon Civic Center
Day 3 March 27, 2008 10am Awarding - Most Outstanding Candonians/2008 Achievers City Hall
  (Thursday) 8pm Free Concert: Candon Civic Center
Day 4 March 28, 2008 8am Tobacco Rolling Contest - "Panagdubla" Candon City Plaza
  (Friday) 8pm Search for Ms. Virginia Tobacco 2008 Candon Civic Center
    3pm GMA 7 K Caravan hosted by Tess Bomb Candon Civic Center
Day 5 March 29, 2008 8am Motocross Bagani Campo
  (Saturday) 1pm Elimination - Search for Mr. & Ms. Bikini Open 2008 Candon Beach Resort
    7pm SK Night - Band Concert Candon Civic Center
Day 6 March 30, 2008 8am Bikathon Paras to CBR
  (Sunday) 9am Motorcade pf Bikini Open Finalists Sta Cruz - Santiago - Civic Center
    8pm Finals - Search for Mr. & Ms. Bikini Open 2008 Darapidap Beachfront
Day 7 March 31, 2008 1pm Grand Parade Candon Civic Center to CSCS
      Open Street Dancing Competition
      Fireworks Display
    7pm Grand Finals - Paligsawit Amateur Singing Contest Civic Center
 
Ilokano as a Medium of Communication and Instruction (Opinion Matters) PDF Print E-mail
Written by Ver Alviento   
ImageThere was an article by Ernie C. Turla stating that all 160 languages in the Philippines, with the exception of the national language, may face eventual extinction and may be among the 3,000 or so languages predicted to die during this century by an international language organization. Endangered cultural structures have been on the verge of deterioration during the past half a century or so.

 

In reaction with this report, some regionalists blame the country's language policy which mandates the use of bilingual in school. Under the law, English language shall be used as the primary medium of instruction in all public and private institutions of learning in the secondary level. Institutions of higher education, including State Colleges and Universities [SUCs], are also encouraged to adopt the use of the English language as the primary medium of instruction in the tertiary level.

 

To save local languages from gradual extinction, several advocacies proposed that local language shall be used as a medium of communication and instruction in the country.

 

Ang Katipunan ng mga Samahang Maharlika (Ang KASAMA), a regional socio – cultural organization, for instance, demands that local languages should be used as a medium of communication and instruction in the school. According to them, the use of non-local languages as the medium of instruction only results in the suppression and subjugation of the local language and inevitably means the suppression of the local culture. This in turn leads to psychic emoralization, inferiority complexes and a defeatist mentality.

 

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Nene" Q. Pimentel, Jr. even calls the government to make an effort to save the ethnic languages of the Filipino nation from the danger of extinction by allowing them to be used as a medium of instruction in elementary schools in the respective regions where they are widely spoken.

 

The Defenders of Indigenous Languages of the Archipelago or DILA however, advocate the enactment of laws and adoption of policies, specifically the replacement of Tagalog as medium of instruction in all elementary and high schools by the particular language indigenous to the region where such schools are located and the inclusion in the elementary, high school and college curricula of academic subjects on the language indigenous to the region where the school is located.

 

Corollary to the above propositions, in UNP Candon, Saul Phytias Crisologo, CBSO president and I conducted a survey during the second semester SY 2007 – 2008 and asked the students as respondents whether or not they agree that local language, Ilokano, shall be used as a medium of communication and instruction at least in the tertiary level. The students are from the degree programs of the school such as the AB, BEED, BSE, BSBA and BSCS. Out of 836 students enrolled from the five degree programs (all levels), 271 were taken as sample respondents using the slovin formula.

 

The questionnaire was consisted of items regarding the personal profile of the respondents and an open ended question where they can give their comments whether or not they agree to the proposition that Ilokano shall be used as a medium of communication and instruction in tertiary level.

 

Based from the findings of our study, 56 or 20.66 percent student – respondents answered they are in favor to the proposition that Ilokano shall be used as a medium of communication and instruction in the tertiary level. There are 181 or 66.79 percent respondents who are not in favor and 34 or 12.55 percent answered no comment.

 

Some of the comments of the respondents who are not in favor to the proposition are: English is the common language in the business world, companies prefer applicants who can speak English fluently. One respondent said, if we use Ilokano as the medium of communication and instruction, we will be lagged behind because English is international language, it teaches us to be globally competitive and our intellectual growth will decline that will impede our progress. Another student replied that there are a lot of students in Ilocos who are not Ilokanos and cannot speak good Ilokano, we have to adjust with them. There was also an answered that, we are already Ilokano, it is just proper to use other languages such as English and Filipino and it needs a lot of adjustments. Our references are written in English.

 

However, those who are in favor said that because many students can no longer speak their own language fluently. One answered that it is one way of preserving our own culture and identity as Ilokanos, however, English should still be used subjects like Math, Science and English Subject. Perhaps discussion in history, social science, political science Ilokano should be encouraged.

 

Based from the findings, it implies that most of the respondents are more concern about their future employment and in the prevailing system where English is an important medium to communicate the world. It is said that language is the symbol of ones identity and the core value of its culture. The sum total of human expression is culture, and language is the best medium to express human culture.

 

Well, I think it's about time to consider the importance of language to ones cultural identity and integrity.

 

Dr. Ricardo Ma. Nolasco, chair of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino said “kailangan natin ang wikang dayuhan para mabuhay sa kasalukuyang panahon. Pero kailangan natin ang wikang sarili, para mabuhay nang habampanahon.”
 
Unseriously Serious Life (As I See Things) PDF Print E-mail
Written by Robert R. Alicias   
Image UNSERIOUSLY SERIOUS LIFE

 

            You take life too seriously and you die seriously.

            You take life unseriously and you live seriously and relaxingly.

            You agree seriously, and that’s good life.

            You disagree unseriously, and that’s a better life.

            In times like this, you need not live too seriously.

If you do or live seriously then you seriously disagree with George Carlin’s principles of good living.

“Most people take life much too seriously and worry about all the wrong things: security, advancement, prosperity, all those things that give you heartburn. I think people would be better off if they relaxed and had a little more fun, “says George Carlin.

Think about: We are all here on top of the world, zipping around a bad star for in good reason. Yeah, we don’t know our incipiency, we don’t know our night destination, and how long we gonna last here on Mother Earth, and we keep on going to somewhere or better to the CR. And on top of all these things, the whole thing is void and meaningless.

Do you ever stop to think about that?

It’s all meaningless.

Think of this and see if it’s meaningful.

Did you ever see these people who drive with their headlights on in the daytime, because they think it’s safer? You know what would be fun? To smash head on into a guy like that, just to show him that his idea doesn’t (or does) work.

If you can’t see it’s meaning. Then that’s the meaning.

Which reminds me of the coming here in Juan de la Cruz country a men’s magazine, Playboy Philippines is here.

Playboy is a man whose chief interest is the pursuit of pleasure. The opposite is playgirl.

The lovers of flesh, more flesh, and bare skin surely don’t welcome the protest of those who are against the coming of playboy Philippines here.

The macho men, those feeling macho, those who love to see in pictorials two-piece bikini damsels. Frontal nudity, welcome the playboy magazine.

These men and their tribe are happy because the playboy magazine is a de-stressing reading material a too serious life is reduced to a less serious life.

On the other hand, many women or moral-conscious women hate the idea. I mean the introduction of playboy Philippines here. But long long time ago, Playboy exists here to give pleasure to beauty- conscious readers. It didn’t only create a big stir here then.

Some beauties here say playboy makes them insecure. Still others say ladies are being exploited in business. They don’t only know that beautiful ladies are the best ingredients in advertisement or business.

Yeah, If a product creates a big stir like an earthquake that is 6 on the richter commodity to the market Playboy Philippines is not the exception.

Some say the Playboy Philippines. I have yet to see a copy if frontal nudity is displayed is anti-morality and it should not be openly displayed in malls, bookstores or newspaper stands.

Ka Sabas says if the right way to sell playboy is like sagad tabloid where it is hidden and then a buyer (reader) whispers if there’s a new issue. The product is no good, and not income generation

Well, if the disbelievers claim that we are not yet ready for playboy, then they have the right to remain so, but they don’t the right to kill the product. Any

Way, not all can afford to buy playboy, it’s costly for those who have only budget for food and daily needs.

If the antis are so serious about it, and then claim that it will affect family values, well in a way it will but to a negligible level. To them, it’s better that they be more serious in the campaign against porno CDs. It’s cheap as P25 per CD and what you view here is far more pornographic since you view different sexual positions with partners and other erotic scenes that arouse the viewer to do the same or just do “mariang palad” to satisfy one’s sexual thirst.

Ka Sabas says: to those rapid disbelievers of playboy Philippines, you must have “poisonality” working in your diluted brain. May you leave (live) outside the Philippines to establish the place you like to inhabit for the rest of your life.

Again the Anti-Playboy Philippines feminists see it as a sort of pornography.

Read this paragraph to see the light of the issue: “Feminists want to ban pornography on the arounds that encourages violence against women. The Japanese consume for more violent and depraved pornography than we do, (here in our country). And yet there is almost no rape reported there. A woman is twenty times in danger of being raped in the U.S. than she is in Japan. (what is the score here? Very low.) Why? Because Japanese people are decent, civilized, and intelligent.” 

This is serious report.

And Ka Sabas suggestion is also a serious matter.

Think seriously of this unserious matter, or better think unseriously of this serious matter.

 
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