Connecting These News
Martes, Marso 31, 2009 Mga Puna
I don’t know why but I feel like crying because of happiness whenever I hear that the Philippines tops Earth Hour 2009. According to Inquirer.net:
“MANILA, Philippines–For 60 minutes Saturday night (March 28) , a recorded all-time high of 650 cities switched off its lights for Earth Hour, placing the Philippines as the top participant in the event, an official of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said.
“More than 15 million Filipinos in 650 major towns and cities from distant islands participated,” according to WWF communications officer Gregg Yan told INQUIRER.net.
Yan said the Philippines also placed first in town and city participation out of the 88 countries among 25 different time zones.
This is really unexpected since most of us just wanted to cooperate. But this is really good news. Let’s keep on doing this for the environment.
With that, a news about Chip Tsao’s “The War At Home” column made many Filipinos raised their eyebrows when Chip Tsao named the Philippines as a “nation of servants”. It’s really sounds discriminating. But I liked how other Filipinos took it positively. It is true that there are a lot of Filipino domestic helpers abroad. So what? Our domestic helpers are doing their jobs well and they are ready to sacrfice for their families here in the Philippines. We are a nation of servants… Yes, a nation of good servants. This attitude of ours brings us to the top. But still, we deserve due respect.
We hate it when other nations discriminate us. But why does sometimes, a Filipino discriminates his fellow Filipino. This is what allegedly happened between Boyet Fajardo and Marvin Fernandez. Well, we all know the story but let’s give Boyet Fajardo the benefit of the doubt, though I believe that the news is true. Actually, I really don’t know him until this news came out.
The moral lessons of these stories? Respect is earned. Respect others. Respect yourself so others will respect you.
a Filipino discriminates his fellow Filipino –i hate this. too much of this abroad. sa tingin ko hindi na mawawala iyan lalo kung natabunan na ng pera ang utak nya. btw OT: cool header there
I agree… that giving respect can do a lot of electrifying- energetic wonders to all of us. good news yung sa earth hour ha!
wow! hindi ko alam na tayo pala ang number one na nagparticipate sa earth hour! wow…i feel so proud! sumali kasi kami eh..ahehehe!
hays…naubos na ako ng pwedeng sabihin kay “Chip”… he’s all over the virtual sphere. bakit ba kasi pinablish yung article na yun? hays…
yeah right! you earned respect, you can respect others and respect yourself.
but it has not something to do with discrimination.
discrimination happens only if you allow them to discriminate you.
isnt it great that we been marked for the Earth Hour. thats amazing,
but we still have more to work out in our country like cleaning up our pasig river.
imagine if we provide one peso daily per filipino for just 3milliion pinoy only, we can generate 100M in less than a year enough to clean up the pasig river.
wadoyuthink ha!
“Nation of Servants”? Hahaha. I’ll take that as a compliment since we served very well during the Earth hour and since these so-called servants keeps the country from being pulled further down by the recession. Hah! Take-that!
Peace!