Walk the World Pilipinas or Isang Hakbang, Pilipinas 2010 is one event that aims to help put a stop to world hunger. Here in the Philippines, it aims to extend help to areas in Mindanao badly affected by conflicts. This is in collaboration with United Nations World Food Program.
Isang Hakbang, Pilipinas 2010 will take place on June 2, 02010 from 5am till 10 am at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.
For more information, visit the website of Walk the World Pilipinas.
Being forever on the lookout for diets that work, someone I know has been too obsessed with dieting that she has lost sight of the fun in eating healthy food that won’t compromise the expanding body width.
My solution to this conquest of the “impossible dream” would be to have more fresh fruits and vegetables, drink more water (argh! from a soda drinker) and cutting down on the salt intake among other things.
Other things include discipline to do a fitness regime and sleeping well.
I guess this friend gets my drift since I will be sending her this post I have written 😀
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Some of my students are in that stage where body image is of utmost importance.
They are conscious of their wardrobe, their hairstyle, their choice of music and their circle of friends. Some even want to be involved in sports for some abs workout!
They are in the stage where appreciation and acceptance of people around them rank high. They do things that they think will give them approval but sometimes they get exactly the opposite of what they want.
Teenage years are one of the exciting phases in a person’s life and it takes tons of patience and understanding from the people around them. After all, weren’t we teenagers too not so long ago?
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Tagged body image, self-worth, teenagers, teens
Make a Stand for Democracy Now: Enough Blood on the Ballot
With the 2010 Philippine Elections just a few days away, we have to make one of the most important decisions for our country by voting for leaders that our hearts, minds and conscience dictate to us.
The Ampatuan Maguindanao Massacre which still has to be solved and seems to be on the track of not being solved still haunts many people, the victims’ families, the journalists and ordinary citizens till now.
Triggered by this fatal incident, Cherie Paris watches encourages people to stand up and be heard by saying “NO!” to electoral violence.
A photographic tableau “Not Today” was created by visual artist and photograher Wawi Navarroza as a reminder to call for a clean, honest and peaceful Philippine elections. This will be featured in a billboard along EDSA, Mandaluyong.
News photos from the media and Francisco de Goya’s cathartic painting, The Third of May, 1808, are some of the inspirations that Navarroza looked at to create this “critical piece that comments and re-imagines the absurdity of violence by staging a thought-provoking Real/Unreal tableau vivant”.
Not Today, The Third of May, 1808, where the Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s armies during the occupation of 1808 happened, also served as a poignant reaction against political violence.
“I got interested in re-creating a shared pathos, a familiar disturbing image as a way of addressing the problem,” Wawi Navarroza said
“I’ve designed this piece to function in many levels through the different contexts I staged this photo to be read (billboard, gallery, commercial),” explains the contemporary artist. “The work aims to destabilize our usual reception of images in order for us to remember and rethink how images shape our ideas and opinions in a massive insidious way. I’ve decentralized the meaning in this picture by depicting reality mirrored as fiction.”
She adds further: “That this photograph seems to be parading the Theatre of the Absurd is nothing different to the absurdity of massacre, war, atrocity and violence. People have died for pointless reasons, the “senseless” killings (is there sensible killing?), the blood-stained election votes. We all know it’s starting to feel like circus around here. We’re living in a cabaret of underhanded politics… the huddled masses with collective amnesia, the trigger-happy demons on wheels, sequined evangelists, stupid whitening products, scams and scandals, the madmen and monsters who are willing to do horrendous acts of violence in exchange of…what? This is our dark comedy, our self-styled campy horror show.”
The Time is Now
In cooperation with Cherie Paris watches, the tableau Not Today, a limited edition Cherie Paris watch was launched as a reminder that NOW is the time we have to make a stand against electoral violence, brutality and bloodshed.
The “Peace” watch reminds Filipinos that it’s about time we emerge from behind our mobile phones, behind television sets and behind our Facebook and Twitter accounts and take an active and visible stand against electoral violence.
The Peace watch is designed by Wawi Navarroza and features a short hand that reads “It’s about time” and a long hand showing the words “Enough blood on the ballot,” emblazoned as strong symbols of peace, as well as non-violent and honest elections.
Sign the petition here and let your voice be heard when you say “Enough Blood on the Ballot”
For more information about Urban Time and Wawi Navarroza’s anti-violence advocacy, please visit www.urbantime.com.ph. Limited-edition Cherie Paris “Peace” watch is available at The Urban Time boutique in SM North EDSA Annex and select Robinsons and Metro Gaisano department store.
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Heto si Chi-chi, ang aming American Pitbull Terrier, nakatali bago paliguan.
Alam niyo naman, me mga asong ayaw na naliligo. Yan ngang si Chi-chi, me pagka-abusado, pinakawalan mo na nga, kapag nakitang dala-dala ang chain niya, nagpapahabol pa! Nakakatawang nakakainis, 😀
Pasensiya na po sa grabeng late, medyo busy-busyhan ang inyong abang lingkod 🙂
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