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In continued recognition of our dear OFW’s, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration is launching the 2009 Search for Most Outstanding OFW Family of the Year Award (MOFYA).
Now on its fifth year, they are encouraging the people’s organizations, local government units and agencies, non-government organizations, church based organizations, government agencies, and communities to take part in the search for this year’s nominees.
The periodic and regular overseas employment may lead to financial stability for the family but prolonged separation also threatens family ties. However, it is erstwhile to note that some OFWs and their families have surmounted the challenges and downside of overseas employment. The 2009 Search for MOFYA aims to identify these families whom we can all draw our inspiration from.
Support to this worthwhile endeavor in honoring the Filipino Migrant Workers are most welcome. OWWA welcomes your nominations until July 31, 2009.
For queries, please call our Rotanisi, Inc. Office Hotline at (82) 305-8369/300-3402, look for Nilfa/Henry or at OWWA Regional XI Office, (82) 221-8593/ 227-9536 look for Mayette Abarca.
In early July, two seminars on WordPress will be conducted. One is for the bloggers and the other is for the web developers who are looking into using WordPress as a content management system (CMS).
The following are the schedules and rates:
Seminar 1: WordPress as CMS, 3 July 2009 (Friday), 5:00 – 8:00 P.M.
Fee: P450 per person
Venue: Lane Systems conference room, Wheels n’ More Drive, J.P. Laurel Ave., Bajada, Davao City (in the compound where Urban Club & AutoShop are located)
Seminar 2: WordPress for Bloggers, 4 July 2009 (Saturday)
Time: TBA
Venue: TBA
Fee: P300 per person | Student rate: P150
The seminar fees will go towards renting of the venue, cost of materials, and merienda. For more queries, please visit Robilloblog.com.
I’ve been a choir fanatic since I became a member of our church choir. It [really] influences me a lot. From the type of music that I listen to and to the songs that I play.
My favorite choir group is the world renowned Himig Singers, even though some of my colleagues are member of the choir group, it’s a different kind of feeling when I hear them singing. For me, it’s relaxing and I feel very comfortable.
Just this morning, I was watching Maayong Buntag Mindnao (MBM) [local morning show], I was surprised that the Himig Singers were their guests. They were promoting their upcoming concert.
It is dubbed as the “Night of Compassion” with The Himig Singers featuring the Songspell Children’s Choir. The concert was made through possible and organized by the Davao City Lions Club. The concert is scheduled on JUNE 27, 2009, 7:00pm at the Davao Christian High School Auditorium, V. Mapa St., Davao City. For queries, please visit HimigSingers.com.
Good thing Kuya Leo will provide for my ticket. I’m excited to hear them again singing live. See you guys there!
Just recently, I was shock while browsing yahoo headlining that the last remaining survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died in a care home in England at 97.
I could still remember and yes of course who would ever forget the movie “Titanic” which was released in 1997 where it became the highest-grossing film of all time, with a total of $ 1.8 billion worldwide?
No wonder many of us are still watching it time and time again.
According to AFP, Elizabeth Gladys Dean, known to friends as Millvina, was only nine weeks old when the liner hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on the night of April 14, 1912, and sank killing 1,500 people. She survived after being bundled up in a sack and carried to safety. Her mother Georgette Eva and brother Bertram also made it, but her father, Bertram Frank, was among those who died. Born on February 12, 1912, Dean was the youngest passenger on board. For more about this news, please click here.
Titanic fervor is still with us even up to now, recall the memories that the most luxurious, most technically advanced and largest passenger in the world dubbed as the “unsinkable” took only just 2 hours and 40 minutes to disappear into the icy waters of the Atlantic after striking an iceberg.
