NOYNOY at TIME

First, was Corazon Aquino

Former Philippine President Corzaon Aquino

Then next was her son

Running for Philippine President (2010 election) Noynoy Aquino

These two Aquino made it to the TIME Magazine Cover, First was during in 1987 and now in 2010. Binigno "noynoy" Aquino, cover in TIME magazine April 25 issue. We'll it must be an Achievement for him to conquer TIME. I admit I Haven't read the issue yet not until today when I found an article about this April 25 issue. This issue entitled ''CAN NOYNOY SAVE THE PHILIPPINES''.

Here are some excerpts from this issue:

• ''It's past midnight in Zamboanga and Benigno (Noynoy) Aquino III slouches in his chair, a glass of Coke in one hand and a cigarette in another. He's tired and bleary-eyed and wracked by a cold. A grueling day of audiences, processions and interviews in three different provinces across the southern Philippine island of Mindanao is drawing to a close in the hotel lobby...''
• ''For the Philippines, Aquino is an unlikely man of the moment. At a rally earlier in the day, tens of thousands had crammed into a stadium to hear the presidential candidate speak. Kris Aquino, his youngest sister and a celebrity talk-show host, revved up the crowd alongside her husband, an equally telegenic basketball star. High-school dance troupes garbed in yellow — the Aquino colors — spun cartwheels on stage. Yet when 50-year-old Noynoy emerged, hunched and bespectacled, amid blaring music and streams of confetti, he cut an awkward figure. Shirt loose, pants baggy and hair thinning, he looked more an abashed computer nerd than the sort of brash, swaggering politician that has become the stock-in-trade in the Philippines...''
• ''Yet, for all the zeal he inspires, aquino himself is also a product of the status quo. Both his parents, Ninoy and Cory, came from pedigreed stock — landed, aristocratic families that have long been part of the ruling establishment. Similarly, Aquino's vice-presidential running mate, Mar Roxas, is the grandson of Manuel Roxas, the country's first President. Arroyo, their erstwhile foe, is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal, another President from the early days of the republic. And though they eventually faced each other as enemies, Ninoy and Marcos were members of the same fraternity at an elite Philippine university. Like a pantomime of ancient Rome, Manila's political landscape has been shaped for generations by the intimacies and vendettas of an entrenched rank of patricians.

for full article click: TIME MAGAZINE 

My Personal note, is the APRIL 25 ISSUE a plus point for him or not? is it a shame or our pride? Apparently, read the whole article and discover for yourself.

A glimpse of Hacienda Luisita

I knew this famous Hacienda during 2004, were farmers were killed. Thats all I know, well aside that it is own by the famous figures in our country.

As I searched on Wikipedia ,Hacienda Luisita is a 6 435 hectares own by the Cojuangco family which includes former president Corazon Aquino and her son Benigno “noynoy” Aquino who is now running for the highest position in the Philippines. The hacienda is as large as a two cities combines. Well apparently is very large. And the history of these estates is being divided into 8 periods The Hacienda was originally owned by Compania General de Tobacoo de Filipinas, a Holding company owned by the Spaniards. It was during 1950’s that the hacienda was owned by Don Pepeng Cojuango ( father of former president Corazon Aquino) when then the late President blocked the sells of the hacienda to the Lopes’.. Fearing that the lopes’ would be to powerful if the still own the hacienda having these alredy own the meralco and ABS-CBN and other land properties in the western visayas. President Agsaysay offered the land to the Cojuangco’s.

That’s all I now about the hacienda Luisita. Now the issues here, the family garnered criticism of the ownership of the land. Some people views it as oligarchy. Second is that on November 16, 2004 were 12 farmers and their children were brutally killed and hundreds were injured. The protestors were fighting a fairer wage, increase benefits and a greater assurance of the land reform.

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a tribute

August 1, 2009 at 3:18am, our beloved president died. I just knew the news when I opened my computer to check some emails... "Corazon Aquino, Philippines president, dead at 76" that was the headline at yahoo news regarding at Aquino's death.

THE EPITOME OF A STRONG WOMAN

As what i remembered, I knew Cory Aquino when I was in Grade Six.She was part of our history lesson. All I know that She was our former President, that's it!... It was during High school that I do have a full view at Cory Aquino's life...

We will surely miss her as a president, a leader, Asia's first female president and world-renowned advocate of democracy. Yes! She brought back the word D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-Y at our country when she stood up during the height of the revolution .A simple house wife turned out to be the great president.

She successfully surpassed the seven coup attempt. Our country was broken when Aquino became President. Also, she formed a revolutionary government where the power was all at her hand,instead of having these great power she made a freedom constitution to guide her government. During her termed, 1987 constitution was made and ratified.

She was an Epitome of a strong woman! Her death was a great lost. I will be praying for her! As a Filipino, I do have a responsibility to pray for our GREAT PRESIDENT. She is well loved by filipinos, An idol... An Icon!

I asked myself, why I do I mourn to a person I do not know personally? Well apparently aside from being a former president, she is an inspiration to me. She symbolizes a woman of courage,hope and faith. Despite of difficulties in life; from Ninoy's imprisonment then to His Assassination,Cory remains to be a prayerful. She believes that Prayer is still the most effective ways in dealing such sufferings. As she dies today, August 01 , 2009 ; She goes away with her unveiling faith.

The True Working President

She was the 11th President of the Philippines.

Goodbye, President Corazon C. Aquino. There will be no other Cory Aquino. You are indeed our great President! We have lost a mother... My goodbye...Our Goodbyes...