Markdizon29

My Spanish Phone

markdizon29 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:17:04 +0000

To all certified MOBILE PHONE ADDICTS, I’ve listed some Spanish words/expressions with regards to mobile phone. Just in case you will call your spanish-speaking friend or you have a long distance relationship with someone who lives in latin america or Spain or you’re just tired of using those common english expressions and you want to try some other languages. I hope you’ll like it. (some expressions were not translated literally because of colloquialism) iVamos! =)

1. filipino: WALA AKONG LOAD
español: NO TENGO SALDO

2. filipino: HINDI ITO OPENLINE
español: NO ESTA LIBERADO

3. filipino: WALA KASI AKONG SIGNAL
español: PORQUE NO TENGO COBERTURA

4. filipino: IBABABA KO NA, LOW-BAT NA KASI KO
español: VOY A COLGAR QUE ME ESTA PITANDO LA BATERIA

5. filipino: WAG KA MAG-ALALA, NAKA-UNLI AKO
español: NO TE PREOCUPES, TENGO TARIFA REDUCIDA

6. filipino: PUNTA LANG AKO NG CASHIER PARA MAG-PALOAD
español: VOY A IR AL CAJERO PARA RECARGAR EL MOVIL

7. filipino: “LONG DISTANCE” NA TAWAG
español: LLAMADA DE LARGA DISTANCIA

8. filipino: MAY MISSED CALL KA.
español: TIENES UN LLAMADA PERDIDA

9. filipino: MAG-IWAN NA LANG KAYO NG MESSAGE
español: DEJE UN MENSAJE

10. english: “RINGTONE”
español: TONO DE LLAMADA

11. english: “SPEAKER”
español: ALTAVOZ

12. english: SCREEN/MONITOR
español: PANTALLA

13. english: SIM CARD
español: TARJETA SIM

14. english: CHARGER
español: CARGADOR

15. english: BATTERY
español: BATERIA

16. filipino: PINDUTAN
español: TECLA / BOTON

17. filipino: HELLO (when answering the phone)
español: DIGAME (colloquial)

18. filipino: PREPAID CARD
español: TARJETA PREPAGO

19. filipino: MAGNANAKAW
español: LADRON

20. filipino: FILIPINO TIME AGAIN
español: TIEMPO DE FILIPINO OTRA VEZ

21. filipino: WER NA U, DITO NA ME
español: DONDE ESTAS, YA ESTOY AQUI

22. filipino: WHO U?
español: ¿QUIEN ERES?

23. filipino: KILALA BA KITA?
español: ¿TE CONOZCO?

24. filipino: JOKE LANG
español: ES UN BROMA

25. filipino: LUV U
español: TE QUIERO

origen: Prisma Avanza; metodo de español para extranjeros, Merriam-Webster’s Diccionario Español- Ingles, Wordreference, Nuevo Ven

Excerpts in the book “Shadow of Doubt” regarding the three-day suspension of “Ang Dating Daan TV Program”

markdizon29 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:59:04 +0000

I read the book “SHADOW OF DOUBT: Probing the Supreme Court” by Marites Vitug. The author is also the Editor of Newsbreak. This book was launched last March 16, 2010 at One Serendra Social Hall, The Fort, Taguig, Philippines.
It tackles about the Supreme Court, its system, culture, decisions and most importantly about the magistrates , which according to Vitug, is the least known branch of the government, the least scrutinized, and the least transparent. It’s quite controversial considering the fact that Anvil, the largest publishing house in the country refused to publish the book. National Bookstore, one of the leading bookstores in the Philippines refused to sell it and Justice Velasco of the Supreme Court just filed a 13 count libel case against the author.

It’s good to know that there are some people who are brave enough to expose the truth eventhough some influential people and organization might react violently.

There are excerpts in this book about how the Supreme Court have favored the INC by uphelding the three month suspension of the TV program, “Ang Dating Daan” . Some observers believed that Justice Velasco of the Supreme Court, who wrote the decision, was just paying his dues to INC because they were the one who endorsed him when he applied for the Supreme Court .

These are the excerpts in the book regarding the case:

–PAGE 93-94–
It did help immensely that Velasco was endorsed by Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, a relative of his wife, and the Iglesia ni Cristo. Velasco listed Cardinal Vidal as one of his references when he applied for the Supreme court. Asked about the INC nomination, Velasco said, “Some of my friends and classmates may have approached the Iglesia ni Cristo”.
Years later, Velasco wrote a decision in favor of the INC when he upheld the three monh suspension of the TV program, Ang Dating Daan, whose host used offensive language against a minister of the INC who also anchors a TV program, Ang Tamang Daan. These religious rivals had been at each other’s throats for years.
The majority sided with Velasco. Four justices dissented, calling the decision a “prior restraint” and therefore, a blow to freedom of speech.
The perception was that Velasco was paying his dues to INC. “It was an en banc decision,” he said, dismissing the perceived bias.
Fernando Elisterio, an academic who has studied the INC leadership was zealous about their religion and didn’t want to be defeated in theological debates. “Its hard to crossthem, they’re intolerant. “This case, therefore, was important for the INC.

–PAGE 99–
The INC , for its part, looks out after its businesses, mainly the New Era University and its affiliates, and seeks to protect its religious turf. Thus they need allies in government. “They’re more interested in economic power,” explained Fernando Elisterio, an authority on the INC. “They use political power-their voting bloc-to put people in government with goal of keeping their economic power.”
Estimates of INC members vary, from 800,000 to a million. The INC doesn’t release figures on its membership.

–PAGE 161-162–
The Iglesia ni Cristo case highlighted tensions in the exercise of religious speech. When the Board of Review for Motion Pictures and television gave the INC TV program an X rating-not for public viewing because they “offend and constitute an attack against other religion”-the INC brought its case to court. They lost in the trial court, as well as in their appeal. But the Supreme Court, in a decision written by Puno, reversed the Court of Appeals, calling its ruling a prior restraint on speech. “Deeply ensconced in our fundamental law is its hostility against all prior restraints on speech, including religious speech,” wrote Puno.
Moreover, what the appelate court considered “attacks” on other religions were mere “criticisms.” Puno was empathic: “It is not the task of the State to favor any religion by protecting it against an attack by another religion… even if said religion happens to be the most numerous church in our country… The bedrock of freedom of religion is freedom of thought and it is best served by encouraging the marketplace of dueling ideas.”
Similarly, in a case involving another religious group, the archenemy of Iglesia ni Cristo, Puno took the same position. This time, however, his was a voice of dissent. The MTRCB had suspended the preacher Eliseo Soriano from his TV program Ang Dating Daan, because he had used foul words in attacking the host rival show, Ang Tamang Daan.
While Puno said that Soriano’s words were, indeed, “indecent,” he should not have been punished with a three-month suspension because that meant prior restraint on his speech. He pointed other means of recourse for “unprotected” speech such as laws on libel and obscenity.

Sources: Newsbreak.com
Shadow of Doubt by Marites Vitug

Bob Ong’s Revolution

markdizon29 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:53:44 +0000

A friend gave me 2 books of Bob Ong. He wants to convince me that they are not some sort of typical Filipino novels. I’m also curious about these books because it is always mentioned and promoted in different Blogs and Social Networking Site. However, I always prefer foreign novels than the local ones. the last Filipino novel that I read was “DEKADA 70″ which was written by Lualhati Bautista. The story revolves around a middle class family under the martial law regime. I have read that book when I was in college to satisfy the spirit of activism in me. I remember, even in my dreams, I always utter what Jules have written that he was not owned by his parents but they were just an instrument for him to exist. But gone are those days when I supported the rally in Plaza Miranda against Ramos administration being a puppet of the US Govt. Gone are those days when I join the walk out from our first day of ROTC class at UST to denounce the death of Mark Welson Chua and the call for the abolition of the mandatory ROTC. Now, I’m just an ordinary citizen struggling to make a difference but definitely not anymore an obsessive, compulsive ideologist. But I cannot help to think, why these small books, whom the real author is unknown, are now some sort of Filipino ideological revolution. That I still don’t know. but the moment I open the pages of these books. I hope I can find the reflection of our own. Without pretension, just reality.