tsinelas volunteers and friends: please help spread the word, and use poster below. no date yet, though. just keep the anticipation going. for updated list of donors, visit tsinelasdiaries.

Poster creation of johanna michelle lim. not final yet. subject to editing. but the minimalistic approach is cool. check the chick out at visualplayground.multiply.com

click HERE. so you’ll know what we’re doing. not an official website, though. just a personal documentation, simple blogging. doesn’t carry entries on activities before this month. wanted: web designers – we need your help.

HERE’S PULLING MYSELF TOGETHER.

with her photography, it’s a different kind of orgasmic experience for me. check out her latest collection at ech in san francisco

(to chiloy: bayad na akong utang ani ha)

salamat sa tanan nga ningtambong sa PARES last august 30. we didn’t expect to gather a crowd that big and to raise an amount that significant. because of PARES’ success, we are planning another event, this time to focus on booksale. this is not going to be another one of those ordinary booksales. some big names in cebu’s literary scene will be involved. we’re holding details for now. again, thanks a lot.

for photos of PARES, visit jonggai’s visualplayground.multiply.com

Marcos was probably the only leader of two leaders who knew the Filipino soul and the Filipino heart very very well. The other one was Ninoy. – Teddy Benigno

It was 7 p.m. and not one in the group had had dinner yet. They had just come from work. One of them had brought snacks for everyone and that would do for now. After the usual pleasantries, they got down to business. Tonight’s topic: designing a system to coordinate the group’s growing number of volunteers in six colleges and universities, four municipalities and a dozen support units in Cebu.

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HIGH SCHOOL students from a mountain barangay in Pinamungajan, Cebu who are receiving education assistance from a group were given a personality development seminar recently.

The experience was unique for the 23 high school students from Lut-od National High School because it was the first time they were given a chance to learn about themselves in a non-academic setting.

“Me Na Me: A Personality Development Seminar” was held at the Hidden Valley Training Center and Resort in Barangay Lamac.

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What are we looking for? Today, we are looking for very simple values. We must return to the original values of the Filipino race. Remember the story of the king who said, “Lalakad ako. Ayaw kong masaktan ang paa ko. Carpet the whole kingdom!” What a waste of money because what the next king did was gumawa ng tsinelas, cut out in the carpet the form of his foot. Why cover the whole kingdom with carpet when you can protect your feet and spend only so much? Protect your feet; do not cover the kingdom with carpet. We don’t have to cover the whole world. Begin with ourselves.

Senator RAUL ROCO, EDSA People Power Anniversary, February 2003