A Filipina in Today’s Society

January 19, 2008 · Filed Under education, general, self-help, seo · 12 Comments 

(Just last week, while uploading my post for Filipina Images dot com, an empowering Filipina website, I have stumbled upon the post of Ms. Leah Cantos, another proud Pinay, on her Contest for Filipinas with blogs. It is open to all Filipina bloggers residing in the Philippines. How to enter the contest? Blog about how you as a Filipina, achieved your goals for the past year and your plans for 2008. Here’s my entry for this contest.)

It’s a well known fact that the Filipinas of today are far different from the traditional Filipinas in the earlier period. Being a pinay myself, I am thankful for all those fearless Filipinas in our history who valiantly fought against the society’s narrow concept on women particularly on the issues of our rights, responsibilities and capacities.

Today, to my delight, our country is already inundated with empowered Filipinas. We are now free to obtain an education, plan and have our own career and fight for ideals and principles that we believe in. Although there still exist tapered dogma on our gender from the conservative and conformist sector of our society, everyday, more women are enlightened and refuting abuses and violence against them.

Today, I am celebrating my being a proud Filipina and let me share with you my accomplishments last year as an empowered pinay juggling different roles in life:

  • As a Mother. I now have a pre-school student! Some may say “it’s only pre-school, no big deal.” For me, it’s indeed big deal. I am a first-time mom and everything that my son does delight me. I take pride being able to send my son to school and feed him and clothe him and everything else.
  • As a Wife. My marriage was not a perfect one like all others. My husband and I have a lot of differences and only few commonalities. Last year, our 5-year old marriage was tested with a lot of temptations and difficulties. With our God’s grace, our relationship was saved by these wonderful character traits of a Filipina — genuine and devoted love for family, patience and fortitude, charm and thoughtfulness and faith in God.
  • As a Family. I may not be the perfect daughter, the perfect sister nor the perfect aunt, but I have the perfect desire to help my family. My idea of helping is different too, I’m not the spoiler type of family member who define helping by giving money or buying gifts. What I often think about is how I would be able to provide permanent and long-time opportunity for my siblings and pamangkins [nieces and nephews] so they would learn how to become self-sufficient and directors of their own life. I hate seeing people who always cry help and shout damnation to the government and others who are not involved in their lives simply because there must be “others” to blame for their miseries. I hate seeing poverty-stricken families with a lot of children not minding how they would be able to provide a decent life for their family with their unstable and below minimum wage income. I wanted to see more people with high regards for self-responsibility. People who lead and manage their life and not blame others for their mistakes. I wanted my family to be people with dignity and self-respect. I am helping them become that way.
  • As a Career Woman. More and more, I am ascending towards proving my worth as a career professional. Through my job as a trainer/facilitator, I am able to help support our family’s finances but more than that, my job provide me the opportunity of affecting lives and helping people and organizations realize and improve their character and their competencies and potentials. I may not be highly paid but I take pride in doing my job well. I take pride in maintaining my conscience and not staining my ideals and principles.
  • As a Lifelong Learner. Just last year, I have decided to finally maximize my time and opportunity for continuing education. I have always loved learning. Unlike others, I find going to school and attending seminars and trainings stimulating, prolific, and imperative. I find solace in attending my classes and training sessions. While others, especially the young people, think of studying as stressful, I find it otherwise. Right now, I’m on way of becoming a certified educator and then hopefully, a special education teacher, and then… I’m planning of getting a degree in a lot of fields. I’m a certified lifelong learner and I’m enjoying every bit of being one like all other educated Filipinas.
  • As a Member of the Community. Having an overwhelming passion for my city, Marikina, I have always been involved with different projects and programs for the betterment of my community. And before the end of the year, I took a big leap and put this blog on Marikina to inform more people about my beloved hometown. I am not paid in any way by Marikina for this site, this is among my contributions to promote more our city and share the good news to everyone else that there exist good governance somewhere and there is hope for our country.

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    Filipinas are truly amazing. Once they set their eyes on their goals, nothing would be able to stop them. I need not be a powerful, rich or popular Filipina to impact lives and change society and culture, but in my own ways, I know in my heart that I am affecting lives. Hopefully, 2008 will be a better year… A year where we would be able to help more and redirect more lives for the better. After all, I’m a Filipina.

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    No More Boring Classes At Last!

    January 10, 2008 · Filed Under education, general · Comment 

    “Learning should be fun, not forced. Learning should revolve around the needs and interest of the student, not the teacher.” Marikenya

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    Good news to public school students! I was browsing through Philippine Daily Inquirer when I stumbled upon this news about the introduction of “microLESSONS” in public schools in our country. Supposedly, these “easy-to-develop” student-centered instructional units was pioneered by Singapore’s National Institute of Education and will soon remedy boring lectures, stiffling chalk dusts and sleep-jerking activities in the classroom.
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    “Teaching Is Not A Fallback”
    A Tribute to the Teachers of the World Part 3

    November 26, 2007 · Filed Under education, famous people · 1 Comment 

    “Of all the professions in the world, the job of the teacher has the opportunity to touch lives the most.” marikenya

    To Read the Part 1 and Part 2 of this article –

  • “Teaching Is Not A Fallback,” A Tribute to the Teachers of the World Part 1
  • “Teaching Is Not A Fallback,” A Tribute to the Teachers of the World Part 2

    Last Part of the 3-part Series on “Teaching Is Not A Fallback.” A Tribute to the Teachers of the World.

    We’re getting to the climax of this story. When Holland was in his 60s, the new principal (who was an asshole since the day Holland went teaching at Kennedy High) initiated a cost-cutting measure to comply with the school board which included… the total abolition of the department of drama, arts and music!
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    “Teaching Is Not A Fallback”
    A Tribute to the Teachers of the World Part 2

    November 25, 2007 · Filed Under education, famous people · 2 Comments 

    “Of all the professions in the world, the job of the teacher has the opportunity to touch lives the most.” marikenya

    Part II of the 3-part Series on “Teaching Is Not A Fallback.” A Tribute to the Teachers of the World.

    Another unforgettable scene for me was the conversation between Holland and his co-teacher and friend who was a P.E. teacher and a football coach. He was asking Holland a favor — to teach playing an instrument and making a band member one of his quarterback players whose grades are miserable so the school would still let him play for the team. Apparently, the boy was hopeless when it comes to playing any instrument and Holland rejectedly told this to his friend who said to him:

    • “You’re a lousy teacher if you can’t teach a willing student.”

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    “Teaching Is Not A Fallback”
    A Tribute to the Teachers of the World

    November 25, 2007 · Filed Under education, famous people · 4 Comments 

    “Of all the professions in the world, the job of the teacher has opportunity to touch lives the most.” marikenya

    In our guidance and counseling subject last night, Our professor Dr. Pasco made us choose between a lecture or watching a movie (with a reflection paper after of course). Of course, since we were all tired (coming in to classes from our day jobs), we were happy for a movie breather so we chose the latter.

    We bought our chichirya (junk foods) and c2 (ice trea) and settled to watch the night’s premier —Mr. Holland’s Opus — a story of a musician turned teacher who greatly affected lives of his students and made a notable impact in his community.

    Holland opus

    Richard Dreyfuss plays the of role Glenn Holland, the musician whose goal is to create his own composition so he took the job of a teacher thinking it would give him more free time to focus on making his song.
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    The Schools of Thought and the Paradox of Life

    November 21, 2007 · Filed Under education, self-help · 6 Comments 

    Life is not to be wept over nor to be laughed at, but to be understood.

    Last night, I was a reporter for our class in Educational Psychology. My preparation was kinda short because i was only given less than a week to report on the nature and scope of educ- psych which includes the school of thoughts in psychology. I actually volunteered to be the first reporter thinking it would be a zilch since I’m so used to reporting and standing in front of people. I was wrong though because I had to study very hard to understand the facets of the different school of thoughts.
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