JOIN US IN OUR PHOTO WALK . . .

The Asian Theological Seminary Photography Club (ATSPC) invites you to a photo walk entitled: "No Dull Moment with Pastor Lemuel Dayrit Danganan" on December 1, 2012, 8:30 in the morning Saturday Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife. Registraion is FREE. JOIN US!

EARN WHILE ADVOCATING

THE OSTOMY ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES

EARN WHILE PROMOTING & MARKETING YOUR ADVOCACY
PRODUCTS & SERVICES

     1-Day Seminar on:  

“Social Media as a Tool for Advocacy Campaign;

Promote & Market Filipino Products and Services Worldwide”

REGISTRATION FEE :  P 500.00 ONLY!
Inclusive of Food and Venue.

Why spend on monthly payment for internet service providers, hire  digital artists and media planners for  your advocacy campaign, promotional and marketing needs when you can do it for FREE in the cyber space and even earn from it by registering the social media site you shall design via PAYPAL by placing the Ads being promoted by Google's ADSENSE.  You can set up your communication system by registering an email account at gmail.com for your emails and group mailing needs then  design and develop a social media site for your association/organization at Google's blogspot.com.

What else? You can also help others to earn at home to promote and market the events, product and services of other companies by setting up an e-cyber marketing service  with your members as marketing/sales partners of your sponsors/donor company and advocate partners.  You can reduce your sponsor/donor's printing and publication cost and help maintain an environmental friendly system of presenting their products and services, wherever you are thru mobile phones.   Finally, you can help the Ostomy Association of the Philippines (OAP) and the cancer survivors.    

And what are the advantages of the Cyber Marketing scheme we are talking about?  Aside from undetermined numbers of e-magazine promotions sent to individual e-mail addresses and group mail accounts of our members as sales and marketing agents, we can  determine the actual number of viewers who viewed our promotional material worldwide! This does not include other sites of our members and email messages they are sending including the links posted in facebook accounts and in other social media site.  Imagine the extent of promotional exposure your donor/sponsor can enjoy.  

See this simple e-magazine style email message, which you will learn to construct :

9th MEGA BALIKBAYAN OFW EXPO 2012!

WELCOME TO THE 9th MEGA BALIKBAYAN OFW EXPO 2012

 and 

THE 3rd TRAVEL PHILIPPINES SHOW! 

@ MEGA TRADE HALLS SM MEGA MALL 

December 7 – 9, 2012 

This is your opportunity to effectively market your products and services in our expositions to be attended by thousands of OFWs, Balikbayans and Tourists who shall flock to SM Mega Mall this coming Christmas Season!

We shall be featuring Philippine Destinations from from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Our Travel Insurance Exposition shall provide you with your banking loans/investment & travel insurance, travel and tours and other related services. Our Hotel Expositions shall ensure your hotel accommodations, restaurants, airlines, cruise, land transportation needs including tourism estate, realty investment and other tourism enterprises.  Finally, our Medical Tourism Exposition is geared towards maintaining your health, beauty and wellness including Spas, Medical and Therapeutic services from all over the country. 

 

SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

DOUBLE CLICK HERE TO SEE FOR YOURSELF!

SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

HURRY!  ONLY FIFTY (50) SEATS ARE LEFT!  

FOR RESERVATIONS CONTACT:


GREG OCULTO
President
Ostomy Association of the Philippines
Out Patient Department, UP-PGH
Mobile :09394398502
email address : ostomy_association@yahoo.c

BIRDS STRIKES @ NAIA

BIRDS STRIKES AT NAIA!

(From left: Lt. Gen. William K. Hotchkiss, CAAP Director General with   

Capt. John Andrews, Deputy General for Operations, CAAP)

 Bird strike at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) does not only poses an imminent danger to the safety of airlines and its passengers, but also a threat to our country’s economy as well. We may never earn an upgrade of our aviation safety classification from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to boost our tourism industry and increase commercial activities in the metropolis and parts of central Luzon, because of such issue, other than the modernization of our airports.
 

Lately, there was tremendous increase of bird strikes at NAIA.  There were  49  bird strike recorded by CAAP from January to September, compared to 30 bird strikes in 2011 and 25 in 2010, which makes the makes the danger more imminent.  Thus, NAIA was prompted to issue a warning to the pilots of the danger to land and take off at NAIA. 

It was reported that a Philippine Airlines (PAL) Flight PR 124 to Manila was canceled last September after birds got sucked into the plane’s engine in order to ensure the safety of passengers and crew. Cebu Pacific's Cotabato-Manila flight was delayed for more than four hours also in the same month.  Earlier in July, it was reported that  PAL flight PR 105 that just arrived in Manila from Guam in also suffered from the same incident and the aircraft’s entire set of fan blades had to be replaced due to irreparable damage. It was reported by TV 5 News that from January to July this year, 39 bird strikes have been reported at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), 50 percent more than the same period last year, data from the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) indicated.  These incidents involve aircraft of Philippine Airlines (PAL), Cebu Pacific, Zest Air, Cathay Pacific, Jet Star Asia, Air Philippines Express, and Qatar Airways.
 
The population of migratory birds nesting at the Las-Piñas-Paranaque Critical Habitat and Eco Tourism area located about 15 kilometer away from NAIA . . .  DOUBLE CLICK HERE TO WITNESS BY YOURSELF

MARITINE INDUSTRY IN DANGER OF PERIL!

Indefinite suspension of licenses to operate manning agencies pending litigation of a case is endangering  the maritime industry to the detriment of the Philippine economy!

This is what happened to the 300 seafarers of Gyron Crew Incorporation and Manning Agency (GCIMA). A complaint was filed by three former recruits of GCIMA leading to the suspension of its license to operate. Consequently, the contract of 300 seafarers due to be deployed to Netherlands were put on hold, many of whom were about to leave the country. Meanwhile, the case remains pending for more than sixty (60) days, while it was reported that a new law was passed in Holland allegedly banning Filipino seafarers. 

Despite previous withdrawal of the complaint by two of the complainants, while the other one already left the country, the case still remains pending litigation for more than two months, alleged Bosun Jeric Bilbao, representing the seafarers. Atty. Jesus Gabriel "Jeriel" Domingo, OIC, Adjudication Office, POEA, replied: “our hands are tied by the law . . . we must observe the requirement of due process”, when confronted by the seafarers, during the Balitaan sa Aloha media forum on October 10, 2012. However, the case has not yet been resolved to date. On the other hand, millions of pesos due to the seafarers and the government were already lost.

This is a dangerous precedent! 

HEAR IT FROM THE PARTIES PERSONALLY.  DOUBLE CLICK HERE

MILLIONS IN REMITTANCES LOST!

(Seafarers of Gyron Crew Incorporation with Moderator Lolly Acosta and Atty. Jesus Gabriel Domingo, OIC, Adjudication Office, POEA)

Millions of pesos in dollar remittances were lost! Millions due to the government as taxes, hundreds starved, some of their dependents quit school while some of their properties were already due for foreclosure because of POEA’s Order suspending the processing of documents by Gyron Crew Incorporation and Manning Agency of seafarers who were about to be deployed to Holland.  

Despite withdrawal of complaint filed by three (3) complainants hired by another manning agency receiving salary lower than what they were receiving from Gyron Crew Incorporation Manning Agency, two of whom already withdrawn the complaint while the other already left the country, the Order has not yet been lifted by the POEA, said Bosun Jeric Bilbao, representing the 300 seaferers. In fact, many of them were already due for deployment even before the Order was issued, Bilbao added. 

On the other hand, seafarers who should have already been deployed to Holland now faces a dilemma because of a recent law passed limiting employment of Filipino Seafarers to Holland, said Rodolfo Ca Chila, another seafarer. Thus, denying them and their families of the income which they were supposedly already enjoying. 

 (The seafarers being assisted by  Atty. Malanio "Batas" Mauricio to intervene before the case concerning their manning agency)

Consequently, millions in remittances were lost as a result of POEA’s Order to the detriment of our economy, while the case still remains pending. 

Hear it from them personally:

2012 World Ostomy Day Celebration

October 6, 2012

Six-months of caring from the moment we discovered that she was already suffering from the disease at its final stage.   I was able to kiss her in the forehead and whispered to her ears: “you have to rest now”.  Its time to say goodbye. It was the last time I kissed my Mother.   It was an agonizing experience, which I hope others shall not suffer, especially the children.  For those who survived, we hope that they are being taken care of by their love ones celebrating life by letting their voices be heard.

Watch them in video . . .

 

World Ostomy Day!

(From left: Greg Oculto, President, Ostomate Association of the Philippines (OAP); Luningning Siarez, President Stoma Nurses Core Group; Dr. Ramy Roxas, President of the Philippine Society of Colorectal Surgeons and the Asean Society of Colorectal Surgeons; Dra. Rachel Rosario, Executive Director and Romy Marcaida, Director, Philippine Cancer Society; Lolly Acosta, Moderator, Balitaan sa Aloha Hotel; and, Colorectal Cancer Survivor, Fernando Lazaro, Vice-President, OAP) 

Colorectal Cancer is now plaguing our country! Who are these people we call Ostomates? “The truth shall set us free”, said Lolly Acosta during her opening statement at the forum. In furtherance of its mission, the Philippine Cancer Society and Balitaan Sa Aloha Hotel in a joint project, launched a quad media, i.e., television, radio, print and the internet, campaign to advocate for the eradication of Colorectal cancer in the country on October 3, 2012, in celebration of the World Ostomy Day on October 6, 2012.

“Statistics shows that Colorectal Cancer is the third leading cancer in the Philippines today. Consequently, pursuant to the mission of the Philippine Cancer Society, there is a need for the society to disseminate information concerning the disease to lessen if not totally eradicate all kinds of cancer in our country”, said Dra. Rachel Rosario of the Philippine Cancer Society, the lead convenor of the forum at Balitaan sa Aloha Hotel on October 3, 2012.  

 “Colorectal Cancer is one of the most common cancer in the world today and the number of those suffering from the disease is growing, said Dr. Ramy Roxas, President of the Philippine Society of Colorectal Surgeons and the Asean Society of Colorectal Surgeons. “Data gathered by the Philippine Cancer Society shows that the survival rate of those suffering from the said illness in our country is only forty percent (40%), while those in the  United States is 60%”, said Dr. Roxas. He further added that, “the disease can be eliminated if earlier detected and curable”.

And what are the remedies?   Hear it from them personally.  Join us in our Talakayan at Balitaan sa Aloha:    

WORLD OSTOMY DAY PART 1:

Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga Award

The Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga Award : SAGAY 2012.

In 2008 we started advocating for the due recognition of Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga, the most unsung national hero in our country and the ideals which he stood for. He was a tribal leader with his band of tribal warriors, who fought for the freedom of this nation, from Tumauini, Isabela, to Manila, Cebu and the Visayas, to fight, defend and secure our independence and freedom

He was sent to Cebu with his two cousins to lead an Army foreign to his culture and defend the island from the Americans. He rescued his family, who were taken hostage to weaken his resolved and fought back an honorable war against the most powerful army in this world and won. He maintained his idealism as a nationalist despite the respectable position he already enjoyed in the Philippine Scout and left the armed service because of his idealism and love for and independence of our country from the dictates of the foreigners, joined the civilian government to distribute lands equitably and justly in Negros Island for every Filipino to have a piece of land of their own. Applied for and acquired only what is due to him in a homestead for his own, settled peacefully with his family, lived as a farmer and died a simple man before his return to a land he formerly ruled, not seeing the light of day.

He made a difference. A tribal leader leaving behind the comfort of the territory he rules to fight honorably the world's greatest army with people different from his culture to defend our freedom and independence. HONOR! COURAGE! INTEGRITY! Traits seldom a leader possesses these days, which OUR younger generations should live by! We are FILIPINOS who possesses these traits, in the past and even in present time, we still have leaders even in present times who live by this traits and ideals set by our Forefathers and many more shall follow!

The Awardees:

Posthumous Award goes to Captain Eugenio Luga Surriga, a WW II USAFFE veteran who later joined the US Military Service, the first Luga Clan member to join the US Military Service.

Lifetime Achievement Award were given to Gen. Emilio Villanueva Somoza Luga, Jr. and Col. Mateo Ledesma Hojilla Luga, for their significant role in pacifying the 1989' Coup d' Etat.

Military Service Award was given to BGen. Alan Rio Luga for his invaluable contribution to DND's OPLAN BAYANIHAN and the peace effort of the government to reach out to NPA REbels and members of the armed groups of the Secessionist Movements in Mindanao.

Health and Wellness Award goes to Dra. Lenny Luga Canizares Fernandez, for her research work with another doctor entitled: "The Economic Impact of Smoking in the Philippines", which convinced Congress to pass the Anti-Smoking Bill.

Post Graduate Award goes to Vida Luga Sison Gabe a communication expert who graduated full scholar at Ateneo De Manila, Masteral Degree in Communication at University of California Davis, participated in different World Bank research projects on different issues in our country.

College Category goes to Fraulin Luga Sauro, She is a fifth generation Luga from the progeny of “General Mateo Noriel Luga”. She was contracted in a Silliman University Project as a cartoonist to popularized a comic version of the procurement law, entitled “Lando’s Mirror”. Published in January 2009, the 300 copies of “Lando’s Miror” in Visayan, Tagalog, English version and was consolidated in CD Animation for a better understanding of the youth of the local government procurement system to support the government’s effort in its Anti-Corruption Campaign and for the citizentry to be vigilant in safeguarding public funds. Special Award goes to Mala Jean Luga, the one who initiated the advocacy movement for the recognition of General Mateo Noriel Luga and the institutionalization the Luga Clan gatherings in Tumauini, Isabela, Manila and Sagay.

Special Award goes to Mala Jean Luga, the one who initiated the Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga Advocacy.

The Luga Clan: Sagay Reunion 2012

It was Mala Jean Luga who set us up to a meeting at their residence with his father Col. Mateo H. Luga on May 20, 1998 in Fairview, Quezon City, where it all begun. Although there were reunions already organized even prior to the Tumauini and Sagay Reunion, the last two came about out of Mala's persistence.

When we were exchanging notes via emails concerning the life and times of Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga, we told Mala that we shall support her but, only at the background in regard to the advocacy campaign for Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga to gain recognition and to fulfill his father's wish as well as that of the senior members of the Clan. His father, Col. Mateo H. Luga, as well as BGen. Emilio S. Luga and other senior members of the clan - among them, Maria Luga Ramiro, have been advocating for a regular reunion of clan members from Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao for every five years. Maybe because for all we know is that, there were just but a few members of the Luga Clan. It is likewise of public knowledge that Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga is one of the most unsung national hero in Philippine history by the National Historical Institute. Mala Jean Luga was very persistent that we decided launch an advocacy movement in this regard.

It is ironic that a person with such a colorful life as a hero, who earned much respect and esteem by the mightiest army in this world, the United States Armed Forces, during the Fil-Am War because of his conviction to honorable warfare despite inferiority in armaments and forces, was not given due recognition by this nation and his countrymen. Little is known about his family, brothers, sister. The succeeding generations of this martyr is not even aware of their roots, when or where he was born and was actually buried. Most of his children were named after prominent national heroes: Jose, after Dr. Jose Rizal; Emilio, after Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo; Maria and Pilar, a prominent name of an ideal Filipina. This is how nationalistic the great warrior was that he wanted his children to follow his ideals, without them knowing about it.

In is ironic! He was not given due recognition! This is an injustice! An insult to a martyr who fought dearly for the freedom we now enjoy! His family was made hostage to weaken his resolve, yet he stood firm, rescued his love ones and fought back an honorable warfare that earned the respect and admiration of the world's mightiest army. It is this resolve that motivated and drives us to seek for answers to question that haunts us for generations.

It was then that we started the Ibanag Cyber Revolution Project to advocate for the due recognition of Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga! To commemorate his 75th Death anniversary right at the place where he was born! The ALIMOKON CYBER PROJECT begun and it paid off for we have been united in this resolve!

During the Independence Day of 2009, Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga was honored by then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The "The 75th Death Anniversary of Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga" was successfully held thereafter on April 9, 2010, in Tumauini, Isabela, to give honor to the warrior whose last wish is to see his native land, but died in Manila of cancer and has never made it back to Tumauini. It was an honor that the offspring of the brothers and sister of Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga, led by Fr. Angel Baquiran Luga heed to our resolve. In unity there is strength!

Thereafter, under the present Administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III, the Luga Clan's military and police legacies to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP), was recognized. Recently, according to the wishes of the senior members of the clan, a reuinio was successfully held from March 28 to 30, 2012, in Sagay, Negros Occidental.

The 2012 Sagay Reunion was dedicated to the third generation Luga, our Patriarchs, the old guards and fifth generation members of the clan. It was highlighted by awarding mementos to clan members who made extra ordinary achievement that changed the course of history of this nation. Some the accomplishment of the awardees are made public just recently after almost more than two decades. Let us not history be kept from us anymore! Let us not history repeat itself! Let freedom reign by honoring those who deserves the laurels for this nation and its people to stand courageous, like those martyrs and heroes before us without the fun fare of politics!

Posthumous Award; Lifetime Achievement Award; Military Service Award; Health and Wellness Award; Post Graduate Level Award; College level Award; and, a recognition to a clan member who contributed to the continuing institutionalization of the of the Luga Clan's legacy was given to deserving clan members as a beacon never to let history repeat itself, to carry the name and the legacy for those who shall be left behind.

THE AWARDEES! To be continued . . .

THE 2012 LUGA CLAN REUNION IN SAGAY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL.
DOUBLE CLICK ON THE PICTURE BELOW.