Buhay Aroma Beach

Kung ikaw ay residente ng San Jose, Occidental Mindoro konti lang ang lugar na puwede mong kagyat na pasyalan lalo na kung ikaw ay walang wheels katulad ko, hanggang Municipal Plaza o malamang pinakamalayo na ang Aroma Beach sa iyong mapapasyalan, at lately meron nang Jollibee. Pero kung wala ka namang pera o kaya'y hindi ka naman kakain plaza at beach ka lang. Kaya nitong huli at malapit na naman ang tag-kiriwi o yung annual lean season dito sa Occidental Mindoro na dahil ubos na ang kinita sa palay o wala nang maibentang palay eh wala na rin purchasing power ang mga tao dahil kalakhan ng ekonomiya ay naka-asa sa palay, na ang karamihan namang sakahan ay rain fed lang o yung walang irigasyon. Kaya nitong mga huling linggo eh panay beach na lang rin ang napupuntahan ko.

Marami rin akong napansin sa beach na hindi ko napapansin dati o ngayon ko lang nakita, isa na rito ang ang pagkakatakip ng fog sa Iling Island at Sta. Teresa at maging ang bandang dulo ng Caminawit na halos hindi mo na makita dahil sa kapal ng fog. Sabi ng isang gurong eccentric na nakausap ko doon sa beach eh epekto daw yun ng pagkatunaw ng mga glaciers at ang lamig na dati eh nasa temperate regions eh pumunta na sa tropical regions, medyo hebigats ba ang theory nya? Hindi ko pa nasaliksik sa Internet ang sinabi nya sa aking iyon, pero ang kakaibang klima nga natin ngayon eh epekto na rin nga cguro ng Global Warming, tulad ngayong summer dito sa Occidental eh napakainit pag tanghali pero relatibong malamig pag madaling araw kumpara noong mga huling summer kahit na madaling araw eh napaka-init pa rin.

Napansin ko rin ang malumot na dagat, hindi ko matandaan dati kung malumot nga ba ang dagat sa dalampasigan pag summer ang natatandaan ko lang eh minsan maraming sea weeds pero pag tag-ulan ata yun hindi summer. Pero ngayon eh lumot na talaga, hindi ko matandaan kung nakita ko na ang dagat na ganito dati, mahirap talaga ang tumatanda nagiging makalimutin. O baka Seaweeds din naman ang tawag sa ganitong lumot, pero iba klaseng seaweeds ito kung ganun hindi tulad nung makikita mo sa Iling Island o sa Ambulong Island pag nag-iisnorkling ka.

Meron din akong nakitang napakalaking salabay o jellyfish, sayang at inalis na sa tubig noong nakita ko at nagka-hatihati na ang katawan, niligay ko pa nga sa tabi ng jellyfsih ang tsinelas kong Islander na Size 10 para makita nyo kung gano talaga kalaki tong jellyfish na ito. At medyo nagkatumpok nga ng konti ang mga naroon para tignan ang napakalaking jellyfish. Isa lang din ang kanilang reaksyon "ngayon lang ako nakakita ng ganyang kalaking salabay" ika ng isa , "ako rin" sagot naman ng kanyang kasama. Ang kati siguro nyan pag nadikit syo sabi naman ng GF ko.

At last but not the least eh nagkalat pa rin ang iniiwang basura ng mga nag-pupunta roon mabuti sana kung lahat ng mga iyon eh biodegradable eh kaso mo nagkalat pati ang mga plastics. Dapat kapag nakikinabang sa kagandahan ng kalikasan ang isang tao katulad ng mga bumibisita sa Aroma Beach eh alam rin nila itong pangalagaan.

Are Judge Ma.Teresa Yadao & Agnes Quintos related?

There's a claim then by the Villarosa camp that Agnes Quintos, the mother of the victims in the infamous & controversial Quintos Double Slay is a relative of Judge Teresita Yadao, to what degree of consanguinity or affinity they didn't provide any details or I entirely missed it.

I forgot about it thinking they are just sour graping, but today being Holy Thursday I got a lot of time on my hands and the Quintos Double Slay being hot news again, I remembered that claim and try searching about any evidence in the web. And these are the interesting excerpts from two different web pages I stumbled upon:

"Tesorio, a member of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and a former correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, was released from detention at around 7 p.m. After posting bail at 9 a.m., Tesorio had to wait for the release order of Quezon City Branch 81 Judge Ma. Teresa dela Torre Yadao who is reportedly known to sign release orders only at 3 p.m. Yadao signed the release order at 5 p.m. and Tesorio was released from detention at around 7 p.m."

bold emphasis are mine

Source click here or for easy verification since the first strings I used in Googling before was just Judge+Yadao, but since we already know her middle(?) or maiden name(?) now just try searching Judge Ma. Teresa dela Torre Yadao on Google.

And here's for Agnes Quintos, Ding's wife:

"The Deed of Mortgage executed by GCFI in favor of NIDC,with Ricardo Quintos as accommodation mortgagor, the Pledge Agreement by Ricardo Quintos as stockholder, pledging his shares of stock in favor of NIDC, the Surety Agreement,with Mr. Quintos as surety, and the Deed of Undertaking, with Mr. Quintos as one of the obligors, all of these contracts executed on December 19, 1975, and with the conformity of Mr. Quintos’ wife, Agnes dela Torre."

bold emphasis are mine

Source click here

Obviously we need more than these to conclusively conclude if the two are really related and for that we need the resources or help of the mainstream media, but I couldn't help to ask did the mainstream media missed these? Or was it I who missed it being tackled in the mainstream media.

Silent War Zone

While No Fly Zone was implemented on Makati's Business District yesterday afternoon, the familiar sounds of military choppers filled the air dito sa San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. May tsismis kasi na walong Philippine Army na ang namamatay since nagsimula ang encounter/operation ng PA against the NPA which started two weeks ago if I remember right, including--according to a reliable source--a Commanding Officer of the Army, of what rank cannot be determine.

Nagtataka lang ako kung ba't walang balita sa Mainstream Media, baka my withholding of information, mahilig naman kasi ang Army na huwag ipaalam sa media kung hindi sila makakapogi points. But with the almost everyday sounds of war filling the air and my personal sighting of two APC vehicles, I can reasonably assume galit na galit ang mga Army. Ang kawawa lang dito lagi eh yung mga sibilyan na nadidisplace pag may ganitong mga malakihang military operation, karamihan sa mga nadidisplace eh yung mga kababayan nating mga Mangyans.

Here are some photos of the Mangyan evacuees displaced by war, taken by an NGO during their relief mission:

No Fly Zone

Suddenly No Fly Zone ang Makati Business District kahapon para siguro hindi mapakita ng media sa ere kung gaano karami ang nanawagan na magbitiw na sa puwesto si GMA at mahikayat pa ang ibang tao na nanonood sa TV na sumama rin. Malaki kasi ang discrepancy between estimate ng pulis at ng Organizers, BAYAN & Binay put it at 80, 000 while the police put it at unbelievable 15,000 only. Between the two , mukhang mas malapit ang estimate ng organizers sa true figure. Dagdag pa ang No Fly Zone order ng ATO in an attempt to prevent an independent estimate.

Siga Culture

I love the feel & smell of cool fresh breeze during mornings whether by the beach, just inside our home or in the yard. Alas, an elderly neighbor who lives a few houses away from mine has this nasty habit of burning his garbage during early mornings ; spoiling my period of short calm before I start the day. But the Old Man's garbage burning ways is more of a rule here-- on this part of the world-- than an exemption, burning of garbage early morning or late afternoon is a nasty habit of the local populace. I don't know if these people knew that if you burn those garbage then you just convert those garbage from its solid form to its gas form or in plain term as someone in ANC quip "nilipat mo lang ang basura sa hangin", between the two it's plain common sense which is more toxic.

The bad thing is even Government employees or Government itself resolved their garbage problem by burning it. I don't know who's their idiotic supervisor is but I remember cursing him or her under my breath during a rare dawn run in the municipal plaza. Every drum cum garbage bins place strategically around the oval were being burned creating a thick smog engulfing the plaza, inducing a cough reminiscent of my ganja puffing days.

Even some local educators adapted this moronic ways, during one of my Saturday morning sojourns at the beach, I chanced upon CAT students of OMNC--I don't know if they are from the main campus or the satellite campuses--gathering garbages like driftwoods, plastic cups carelessly thrown away by taho eaters and other plastic garbages irresponsible citizens bought or brought at the beach. After the activity mounds of burning garbages now lined the beach, emitting fumes in the air! Ruining my rare intake of salty air and more importantly defeating their purpose of trying to clean the environment.

These small yet significant & yet nasty things keep on happening amidst the passage of Clean Air Act, the law lobbied by Greenpeace Philippines which won Goldman Enviromental Prize award for their Campaign Director now Greenpeace Southeast Asia Campaign Director Von Hernandez. But alas like any existing Philippine Law, just or unjust, the problem as always is on its implementation.

In the beginning

In the beginning I'm at lost where to start hehe....Hello everyone this is Wired Mangyan signing in, yeah I would like to keep that pen name or blog name and keep my real identity anonymous lest the political & media killings happening around the country spill into blogs. I'll update you with everything & anything that is going on around Mindoro especially in its Western Coast Mindoro Occidental, where I reside & maybe even beyond.

I noticed since staying here for good in year 2000 AD that the media here in Mindoro Occidental is either a propagandist of Nene & company or the Villarosas' JTV, Girlie & company. An independent & adversarial media does not exist in Mindoro Occidental, local newspapers & radio stations always trumpets the supposedly good thing that Elected & Public Officials had done. But leaving controversies, political & socio-economic issues out of their headlines, opinion sections, radio talks etc. thus effectively managing to keep the public uninformed or much worst, misinformed. Such situation inspired me to try blogging and maybe just maybe could at least help to make part of the buried stories seep aboveground.