The father-and-son tandem of Senator Edgardo Angara and Rep. Juan Eduardo is pushing for the passage of a bill that will create a ninth municipality in Aurora province and jumpstart its development.
House Bill 3255, creating a municipality to be named after Lt. Gov. Juan C. Angara from nine remote towns, is now pending before the House committee on local government chaired by Negros Oriental Rep. George Arnaiz.
The measure stated that establishing the municipality will enable residents of the barangays to chart their own destiny.
Critics have slammed the proposal, claiming it will just perpetuate the Angaras as a political dynasty and it would divide this town which is not an Angara bailiwick.
Senator Angara said the new municipality is named in honor of his father’s service to the province as the longest serving mayor of Baler under the Commonwealth and lieutenant governor of the sub-province of Aurora. “If you will not name the new town after him, after whom will you have it named?” he asked.
He also said the barangays covered by the measure have long been neglected. The current Aurora governor is the senator’s sister, Bellaflor Angara-Castillo. (Ferdie G. Domingo)
Para sa inyong kaalaman, ang House Bill 3255 ay nagpapanukala ng pagkakaroon ng ika-9 na bayan sa Aurora. Ito ay tatawaging Dr. Juan C. Angara at may laking 20,102 ektarya. Ang sasakupin nito ay siyam (9) na barangay sa Maria Aurora: Dianawan, Decoliat, Galintuja, San Juan, Suguit, Bazal, Punglo, Villa Aurora at Dialatnan.
Nag hit ang underwater video post ng Provincial Tourism Office kaya ginawan agad nila ng sequel. Ito naman ang Dive Baler. Ang tigakuha nga pala nila video ay si Ernan Dukha sa ilalim at si Mac Ritual sa ibabaw. Si Ryan Ritual ang tiga edit.
GUEST-OF-HONOUR
GOVERNOR BELLAFLOR J. ANGARA-CASTILLO
AURORA PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES
Opening
THURSDAY 11th SEPT 2008 7 pm
Utterly Art Exhibition Space
(diagonally opposite the Sri Mariamman Temple, Pagoda St Exit)
229A South Bridge Road (2nd Level) Singapore 058778
Tel: 6226 2605 E-mail: utterlyart@pacific.net.sg
Mon-Sat 12 noon - 8 pm Sun 12 noon - 5.30 pm
The exhibition runs to SUNDAY 21st SEPT 2008 .
After residing in the United States of America for a year, Filipino artist Jeho Bitancor presents a contemplative exhibition based on his migrant experience. While a great deal of his countrymen regard the colonial power as “The Land of Milk and Honey”, Jeho as the artist and observer is more circumspect, but neither does he deny that detaching “oneself from his or her origin… is a form of salvation which renders the diasporic phenomenon a painful reality in itself”.
Relevant to Singaporeans engaged in the “Stayers” and “Quitters” debate, the show investigates the dilemma of individual emancipation over national deprivation. Jeho points at the foibles of both migrants and their adopted home, by examining the social landscape and condition it generates for migrants, to unravel the contradictions inherent in even the most sought-after dreamland. Marrying his social realist and symbolist genres, he muses on how migration might affect his artistic practice and posits “a crystallization of one’s essence… a re-contextualization of the self”.
Jeho Bitancor is a Cultural Centre of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Awardee of 2006, who has exhibited extensively in the Philippines, Singapore, USA, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong. Trained in the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (1984-1992), and the New York City Art Student’s League (1997), Jeho has won several awards and distinctions, and is collected by the Singapore Art Museum, Ateneo Art Gallery, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Aurora Provincial Government, Museo de Baler, as well as several private collections.
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O mga tiga Baler at Aurora, punta kayo dito at suportahan ang ating kabayan. PAgkakataun nyu na pating makipagkamay kay Gov. Bella. Ayus!
Panoorin ninyo ang showcase video na ito na gawa ng Roadrunner Network, isang pinoy na post-production company.
Kaya ko ito nilagay dito ay dahil tiga Baler ang Sound Designer at Supervisor dito - si Ronald De Asis. Si Ronald ay kilala na sa larangan ito sa bansa. Nung 2006 ay nanalo siya sa Urian Award at Cinemalaya Film Festival ng Best Sound para sa pelikulang Tulad ng Dati. Ilan sa mga pelikulang siya ang sound supervisor o sound engineer ay ang Pisay, Tiyanaks, Balahibong Pusa, Ligay ang Itawag mo sa Akin, at Magic Temple. Nandito ang kanyang imdb profile.
Isang bagsak para sa ating kababayan na si Ronald De Asis.
Dadayu na naman ang mga rakers ng Baler. Abangan ang Pakaskasan Live sa Freedom. Tinatampukan ng Pentavia, Akaw First Project, Ina ni Basilio, Blue Island, Mitochondria, Sandlady, Ohm Sapien, Kwak Kwak, Tanukaobra, Inri, Bubblegoo, Mandala, Libris Arcana, Lpstk, Everyday a Struggle at Arkanum.
Se September 27, 2008, 7:30PM sa Freedom Bar, Anonas Road Quezon City. Kitakita tayu duun.
Isang balita mula sa gmanews.tv tungkol sa Komedya de Baler.
Takaw atensyon ang makulay na kasuotan ng mga aktor sa dula. Ngunit ang higit na dapat pagtuunan ng pansin ng mga manonood ay ang gamit na itak ng mga aktor na pawang tunay at matalas. Kaya naman ang mga manonood ay tiyak na kakabahan dahil sa isang maling galaw ng aktor ay maaaring mauwi sa disgrasya ang palabas.
Baler is of course it refers the town in Quezon where many illustrious people including the late President Manuel L. Quezon came from. If they titled the movie just “Baler,” the executive producer and head of the Viva Group of Companies Vic del Rosario opined that it could very well be a fitting title, considering the history and heritage that the town carries.
At isa pa dito:
On his party, scriptwriter Iglesias said: “When Viva asked me to write the screenplay for ‘Baler,’ I learned that it’s the project that has long been a dream of Sen. Edgardo Angara who happens to come from the Quezon Province. I’ve also long wanted to write a film about The Siege of Baler, so things got into the right places quite by coincidence, a happy coincidence.”
Sinasabi rin sa balita na masusi ang kanilang ginawang research. Na research kaya nila na 29 na taon na simula ng magkaroon ng probinsya ng Aurora kung saan naroon ang Baler.
Ang Pangkat Kawayan ay isang percussion group ng mga batang mag-aaral sa Baler Central School. At ayun nga sa kanilang pangalan, halus lahat na gamit nila ay mga instrumentong yari sa kawayan. 2003 ko ito sila unang napanood pero mas matagal pa silang nabuo. Ang kanilang trainor/conductor noon ay si Mrs. Hernandez. Tumugtog na sila sa labas ng Aurora at naipalabas na sila sa national TV. AKala ko nawala na itong grupong ito pero nitong nakaraang piyesta ng Baler ay ilang beses rin silang nagtanghal. Iba na ang kumukumpas at iba na rin ang mga tumutugtog. Pero ganun pa rin sila kagagaling.
Noong ginagawa ang Baler-Bongabong Road nung dekada 20, may dalawang ginawang rest house para sa mga manggagawa ng kalsada at para sa mga dumadaan doon. Ang isa ay ang sa Villa Aurora at ang isa naman ay sa lugar na tinatawag nating Boundary. Mula sa Reminiscence ni Poppo Olag:
From the hamlet of Kalanan, a winding unpaved road zigzags dizzily along the curve of hazy-gray mountain cliffs to the scenic spot of Boundary. This demarcation site between the provinces of Nueva Ecija and northern Tayabas (Quezon), now Aurora province was developed into a resting station as sanctuary for the road builders. The development started in 1926 during the tenure of Manuel A. Gonzales, the ninth mayor of Baler in conjunction with the construction of Baler-Bongabong national road.
Boundary is located roughly about 68 kilometers west of the town of Baler on the Sierra Madre Mountain ranges overlooking the Pacific Ocean which stands some thousand meters above sea level. Its climate is airy and refreshing, phenomenally cool during the months of October through March, and marvelously pleasant from April through September. Because of its excellent climate, varieties of orchids grew luxuriantly in its surrounding, besides the evergreens that made the place mystically mesmerizing.
At the summit stands a rest house, and from its location the panoramic vista of the blue Pacific silhouetted by the Sierra Madre peels back with breathtaking sceneries. A slippery lane connects the rest house to the national road, and some hundred meters below is a swimming pool designed and engineered by Mother Nature. Shaded by giant ferns, towering trees, and impenetrable by sunlight, the pool is chillingly cold.
Pareho nang wala ang dalawang rest house na iyon. Pero ang binabanggit na swimming pool ay naroon pa at mahabang panahon na nalimutan. Ngayon ay na-restore na uli ang lugar. Pwede na uling pagpiknikan at paliguan. Di ito kaagad makikita dahil ito ay nasa bahaging ibaba ng daan. Ang makikita lamang ay isang billboard na nagtatanda kung nasaan ito.
Ito ang isang video ng lugar na nakita ko sa Youtube:
Napa TV na naman ang Baler kagabi. Ito ay dahil ayon sa PAGASA ay sa Baler ang landfall ng bagyo kaya sagsag na naman sila sa ating bagyuhing bayan para maka scoop ng maaring mangyaring sakuna. At kagaya ng madalas na mangyari, wala na namang nangyari. Umulan lang sa Baler at ang bagyong si Lawin ay nagpaleklek lamang sa Pacific Ocean at di bumisita. Narito ang video, baka may kilala kayo sa mga nakunan ng video.
Ang Singles for Christ Region 3 ay magkakaroon ng Regional Conference sa Baler, Aurora simula August 29 hanggang 31. Ito ay gaganapin sa Baler Central School.
CFC-Singles for Christ was established in 1993 as a ministry to single, young professionals of Couples for Christ, headquartered in Manila, Philippines. Although it grew slowly at first, CFC-SFC gradually expanded into areas already established by CFC, and established its own SFC mission areas. By 2005, CFC-SFC had over 200,000 members worldwide. CFC-SFC now has a worldwide membership of 300,000.
