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Kasing kulay, ingay at saya ng mga musikero at sirkerong ito ang naging anim na buwan ng FILIPOS (Filipino Photographers in South Korea) mula nang ito'y maitatag.  Makulay sa mga parangal na natamo ng mga ilang kasapi sa mga photocontests, paglunsad ng ilang photowalk at iba. Gayundin ang pagkalimbag ng kauna-unahang photobook ng Club na may pamagat na Amateur. At ito pa, video na gawa ni Rusl Lamiel ang isa pang patunay sa makulay na 6 na buwan ng FILIPOS, panoorin po natin: ©2010 FILIPOS/Rusl Lamiel Bisitahin ninyo ang aming Facebook page dito - http://on.fb.me/FILIPOS Ito naman ang simpleng pabalat ng aming photobook: Group picture ng aming photowalk sa Nami Island na kuha ni Sam Grado/Nads Concepcion na nanalo na Most LIKED sa 2010 PEBA Intnernational Photo Contest.

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Maingay na tinugtog ang gyobanggo isa sa mga uri ng buk (drum o tambol) ng Korea para pasimulan ang okasyon o seremonya para sa pagtatanghal para sa pagkilala sa ambag ni Kim Satgat sa literatura ng Korea. Mula sa wikipedia: Korean drums play an important part in traditional Korean music, ranging from folk music to royal court music . There are a wide variety of shapes and sizes, for use both in accompanying other instruments and in special drumming performances. In the traditional Korean classification of instruments, drums are grouped with the hyeokbu , or instruments made with leather. During the Joseon period, many types of drums were used for the royal court music, including the janggu , jwago , yonggo , gyobanggo , jingo , jeolgo , nogo , and others. Among these, the janggu was also used for folk music, and later became the most commonly used drum used in Korean music. PAANYAYA Muli paanyaya para sa 2010 PEBA International Photo Contest: http://www.facebook...

Unang LP Entry sa taong 2010... Tahimik, nagpapahinga at panandaliang nakaidlip si Zel Kim sa tabi ng malamig at banayad na umaagos na sapa ng Hwaseong Fortress mula sa mahaba at mataas na akyatan noong ikatlong Photowalk ng Filipino Photographers in South Korea ( FILIPOS ) nitong  nakalipas na Linggo 17 ng Oktubre. Siya ang kaunahang miyembro na Pilipinang nakapag-asawa ng Koreano dahil karamihan sa mga kasapi ay mga Pilipinong migrtanteng mangagagawang o di kaya mag-aaral.   Inaanyayahan ang mga Pilipino mahilig sa photography na nasa Korea na sumapi sa FILIPOS. Paanyaya pa rin para sa patimpalak ng Philippine Expats/OFW Blog Awards ( PEBA ) Photo Contest. Ang mga detalye ay matatagpuan sa link na ito sa Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/peterahon?v=wall&ref=notif&notif_t=share_wall_create#!/notes/peba-inc-pinoy-expatsofw-blog-awards/peba-2010-international-photo-contest-entry-submission-until-nov-30/126735520713316 Sali po kayo!

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I have been caught up with school work and good thing I can still engage with other extracurricular activities which we volunteers fondly call our real major and minor – that of writing for Sulyapinoy , the Filipino migrant workers ( EPS – Employment Permit System ) newsletter  and as elected officer of the newly formed FILIPOS – Filipino Photographers in South Korea, our foto club which have been very active and even a chapter now established in the  city of Busan. So after several months of no blog post and what I have been doing the past of cutting and pasting from emails, today finaly, I have a new blog post.   This year’s nomination for the 2010 Pinoy Expat/OFW Blog Award (PEBA) is coming to an end. Only 14 days left as of writing and posting (16 October 2010). I have been wanting to post earlier having been requested to help advertise the event. It took me minutes to locate a previous draft now I can’t find it so I have to start from scratch. I was definitely p...

Am now into reposting inspirational emails to my blog... but will post an original entry soon... too busy to write my own reflection these days... "Here's sharing with you these pieces of advice on life and living. If we could only live and practice half of these then life will be beautiful as in living la vida loca, la dolce vita. Live life. love life." - Henry Yu 1. Pray. 2. Go to bed on time. 3. Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed. 4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time schedule, or that will compromise your mental health. 5. Delegate tasks to capable others. 6. Simplify and unclutter your life. 7. Less is more. (Although one is often not enough, two are often too many.) 8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places. 9. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time; don't lump the hard things all together. 10. Take one day at a time. 11. Separate worries from concerns. If ...

by CHARLIE on AUGUST You are not the choices you’ve made. You are not the child you once were. You are not your failed marriage. You are not the setbacks of yesterday. You are not the bad things that have happened to you. You are not your past. The Past Guides Our Choices – It Doesn’t Make Our Choices For Us Your thoughts or feelings about the past don’t change it. That’s what makes it the past. Your future is not your past. Your future, right now, is a nest of possibilities. It only looks like your past if your present choices continue the inertia of the past. The past guides our choices; we have real constraints, opportunities, and experiences based off of the past. Right now, though, those constrains, opportunities, and experiences are what they are – wishing they would be different doesn’t make them different. Whatever happened, you are here. But being here doesn’t mean you have to stay here or that you will stay here. Life is but an endless chain of...

After the mass at Hyewha Church, I met with Fides and showed her my first contribution to the SAMBAYANAN, a newsletter  for the Filipino Catholic Migrants in Seoul Archdiocese. The newsletter can be read with this link below: http://www.sambayanan.org/newsletter.php?id=4 Then I proceeded to the Embassy to monitor week 2 of the 2010 OAV. I was asked by Consul Talisayon if I wrote to Inquirer, what I remember was an email I sent previous night to globalnation to encourage COMELEC in approving the Embassy's request to conduct election in different cities here in Korea. Little did I know that it was made into an article and was showed to me by Embassy staff. The article can be found here: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20100418-264961/Comelec%20asked:%20Allow%20mobile%20voting%20in%20Korea I went to the Embassy today since they have a consular service and check whether more Filipinos will be  going to vote. I learned that some Filipinos visiting ...

Let us support Yasmin Busran-LAO to win a Senate seat. Please introduce her to your family, friends and relatives abroad. Below is a piece by Ms. Elena Masilungan on Yasmin. Vote Yasmin Busran-Lao for Senator ! Yasmin Busran-LAO: Walking Her Talk by Running By Elena Masilungan MANILA — Yasmin Buran-Lao, peace activist, women’s rights advocate, community organizer, is walking her talk by running — that is, running for senator in this year’s election as a candidate of the Liberal party. The 48-year old Lao has made public service her life’s mission. She works with disadvantaged communities and the women of Muslim Mindanao, having grown up amid its violent conflicts and grinding poverty. For her efforts, she was awarded the Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Fellowship for Professional Development. The award was given by the American embassy and the Benigno S. Aquino Foundation in 2005. “Fighting for the rights of Muslim women and other marginalized groups is something personal for me. I get enough s...

As expected, there was a low turn out of the first day of the month long Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) at the Embassy of the Philippines in Korea. When I left at 1:00 pm I could count less than 15 persons who casted their votes. It was the media people who were there to cover the event that ended up voting themselves (they are duly registered voter). Unlike the first election held in 2004 where ballots where sent by mail, this year it is personal voting where Overseas Filipinos have to go to the embassy to vote. Most of the ballots that were sent by mail returned back to the embassy since most OFW easily change their workplaces and places of domicile. The embassy is still awaiting for the COMELEC’s approval to conduct the election in major cities here in Korea. A friend from Gwangju City (3hours and 40 minutes away from Seoul) mentioned that it will be hard for them to go and vote at the embassy. So they are still hoping that they will be given a chance to exercise their ...

The first and most prominent landmark is the Grand Hyatt Hotel (GHH)on a hilly top of Itaewon where the Namsan Park/Seoul Tower is just a stone throw away. From the gate of GHH go down a bit at the Hoenamu gil where the Royal Norwegian Embassy is located. In that corner go down 30 meters and you will find at the first corner the Gabon’s Embassy, enter the street twisting to the right and few steps the gate to the Embassy. Actually there is another gate which is at the main street across Algeria’s Embassy but there’s a big notice (as of writing) for visitors to make use of the back door/gate. Fotos are provided below to help locate the place. I went to the place by subway getting off at Noksapyeong Station (Line6), used exit No.1 then crossed the street. The bus stop for Bus No.3 is across the street under a foot bridge (Warning - do not take bus No. 3 just outside/few steps from exit No.1 which is the opposite route). Map below shows general location of the place so better ...

Dear OFWs Please go out and vote! Susan Ople April 10 at 8:57am Dear Friends, Now that the period for overseas absentee voting has begun, I would like to appeal for your support in encouraging more of our OFWs to go out and vote. Sana gamitin natin ang pagkakataon na ito upang magkaroon ng pagbabago sa Senado. Mga bagong mukha, na may mga bagong panukala - kung hindi mabibigyan ng pagkakataon ay parehong Senado pa rin ang ating mamanahin. Unlike other traditional candidates, I have waged a campaign based on issues, consciously choosing the high road in this most challenging journey. Nakakalungkot kasi kung di ka gimikera, mahirap mapansin sa pambansang entablado maski gaanong katalino ka pa. Pero hindi ako susuko, hindi ako nawawalan ng pag-asa dahil may misyon ako sa pagtakbo - at iyan ay ang pagtulong sa ating mga OFWs. And so on this day, when voting precincts for political freedom have opened its doors for overseas Filipinos, I appeal for one out of 12 votes to be cast by our OFWs...

Thanks Ros for this - from the mail box. (Hmm blloging those that came from the email bos hehehe).... Please send back and see what happens. ( I did ) It's neat. Don't delete this one, you'll laugh when you see the return message. I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend.. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging. Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will da! nce with myself to those wonderful tunes of...