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Free lunch for grade schools?

February 17, 2010 Write a Comment Food, Pilipinas, Promote

All elementary schools within Negros Oriental were allocated with budget from, how I understood it, provincial government officials that will give free lunches to graders for 90 school days. Wow! I’ve been a public school student until secondary school and all I could remember getting was free bulgur that is a not fully-polished cheap grain. Boiled in water and matched with powdered choco to add flavor. And that was in the 90s.

This free lunch is everything from mongo, dried fish, noodles, canned goods with the good old NFA rice. I’m not complaining if that’s everything they could provide! At least it’s FREE and feeds thousands. Something to look forward to for kids in the middle of the day. Parents of these graders does the cooking in shifts.

My mother, who’s a school principal, said that attendance increased, if not perfected, when the free lunch initiative started. Due to the limited options she said that her school barters food, like canned goods, for crops locally grown to add to the menu.

Talks of implementing this throughout the country is on the move. Meaning a national budget will be drafted and finalized. Another possible source of corruption but if it entails stuffing empty stomach for at least once a day for my fellow Filipinos then I’m still not complaining!

Note: Actual photos are taken from Calicanan Elementary School in Pamplona, Negros Oriental.

A blog for my son

January 14, 2010 Write a Comment Fatherhood, Promote

I started a new public blog to record the growth of my son, Bjorn Carlos. Point your browser to bjorncarlos.blogspot.com. Excited to fill its pages with photos, videos and everything that I and my wife could come up with in celebrating the life with our first born.

If you are as excited as we are then become a follower of the blog through Google Friend Connect that’s on the sidebar of the blog.

The Plaza Housing Gazette

November 20, 2009 4 comments Promote

Tired of the same shits of the daily news? Here’s an exciting new take by the newest bed boys of the blogverse – The Plaza Housing Gazette!

Here’s an about them snippet:

This site is not a legitimate news source. Do not come suing us because we’re obviously not mentally capable of comprehending as much as a friendly email from a close relative, least of all “legal documents” and crap like that. And even if you tried, you’ll never get us ‘coz you have no idea who and where we really are, and, that aside, we’re also mentally incapable of comprehending “IP address tracing” and that kind of shit.

None of this is true. None of it is “fictionalized” either. These are blatant lies! Or alternative truths depending on which side of the escapism spectrum you lie (pun unintended) on.