Comments on: An Afternoon Lecture for College Freshmen in Culion, Palawan

By: farida

farida — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:18:13 +0000

More power to the Teen and to you, MM. No stage fright there. I noticed the beautiful acacia trees that are preserved beside the building. I am really saddened to hear that the acacia trees that lined along the road to Carcar/Barili might be cut down for the widening of the road. Sigh, I just hope they can think of other ways to go around those majestic trees.

By: Lava Bien

Lava Bien — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:45:40 +0000

Good job on the teen, language is just a matter of exposure for some hehehe. My boys picked up Tagalog after a month of living in PI (they lived there for about 3 years – 4 years ago) but they’re starting to forget some of the words, or they call it big Tagalog words. They kinda sound funny now in Tagalog but they could still understand it.
I dream in English, can express myself better in English (more animated) and really have to get back and stay/live at any paises de hispano-hablante so I dont get rusty with my Spanish, you lose it when you dont use they say. Give me 6 months in Madrid and I’d be speaking like a local again.
You can take Filipino/Tagalog classes with my daughter hehehe, she cries sometimes when we laugh at a Filipino joke because she’s the only one who wouldn’t get it hahaha poor thing.
Thanks to my mom and dad, Tagalog was always spoken at home so we could never forget it.

By: allen

allen — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:08:39 +0000

I can teach you Filipino for free MM! :) It will be my way of thanking you.

By: whit

whit — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:04:00 +0000

MM, I got friends at the UP Dept of Filipino. I think some lecturers there could be available for tutoring. My Filipino is bad too – much to my friends’ annoyance – although English is not a language in our family (although we also speak Ilonggo/Kiniray-a in our household.) And I think it’s a shame because it limited my interactions with Filipinos in the regions. I blame all those American sitcoms and Taglish in Manila. :)

By: marilen

marilen — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:35:14 +0000

I thank God for your efforts, the Teen’s. Father Alpasa, Ms. Gacusan to inspire our young. Reading this story and previous post on the feeding program is so encouraging – that you all are ‘tending the garden and making it bloom’ – yes, let us all continue, in our small quiet ways to tending the garden wherever God has planted us. We may feel discouraged at times, but all those efforts do make a difference.

By: Abigail

Abigail — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:00:02 +0000

Congratulations for inspiring the students. I personally know Fr. Javi we both went to Miarayon Bukidnon to volunteer and have some quiet time. Culion is truly lucky to have him.

-maayong adlaw from Dubai.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:14:50 +0000

Thanks, MM! Truly remarkable weight loss after only 8 weeks! :) Bravo!!! With focused deterination, you could aim for 170 lbs as your maintainance weight. More importantly, that means then that you are healthier now than when you were having weight issues :).

By: GayeN

GayeN — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:16:05 +0000

Bravo to both of you! I hated public speaking and hated the Filipino subject in school more. I still can’t get over the fact that my Filipino teacher has favoritism – favoring a classmate whose her cousin to the point of giving her the test questions…sigh… I’m just glad my “after school life” turned out better than her. Not gloating here but I do believe in Karma, so there.

Thanks for sharing this! :)

By: lea

lea — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:59:26 +0000

Thanks a lot MM for encouraging the youth to be entrepreneurs! They can learn a lot from someone who has a lot of experience being an entrepreneur.

By: lee

lee — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:36:34 +0000

Glad to read something good amidst the proliferation of bad news, tragedy and the like in cyberspace and media. Well, media is fueled on bad news and much of cyberspace in gossip, assumptions, pretensions and like buttons.