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		<title>Wishes for the New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Filipino drivers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How I wish our resolutions for the New Year include a goal to become better, more law-abiding, citizens.  How I wish commuters and public utility vehicles would follow stop signs.  How I wish drivers would follow driving rules and traffic regulations.  How I wish churchgoers would stop texting and making calls while service is going on.  If this culture of obedience to rules gets entrenched, perhaps it would deter people in government from committing plunder and other corrupt acts.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vcuyco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1307472&amp;post=189&amp;subd=vcuyco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Travels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alumni homecoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foundation celebration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gala Vocational School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gamay Northern Samar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homecoming speech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went home last week to speak during the foundation celebration of my high school, Gala Vocational School. Gala is a trade school that services two adjacent municipalities in the northeastern part of Samar: Gamay and Lapinig. It trains its students in various trades, including building construction, furniture and cabinet making, automotive, dressmaking, cosmetology, food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vcuyco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1307472&amp;post=150&amp;subd=vcuyco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abu Sayyaf, ticking time bombs, and the Anti-Torture Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philippine law absolutely prohibits the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment (here collectively referred to as “torture,” for brevity). The Anti-Torture Act of 2009 states that nothing can justify torture, not even a state of war, threat of war, internal political instability, or any other public emergency. An attempt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vcuyco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1307472&amp;post=109&amp;subd=vcuyco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caramoan is beautiful, but where are the tourists?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difficulty of getting to Caramoan is more than offset by the beauty of the peninsula.  This trip allowed me to take some of the best pictures I’ve ever taken in all my travels.  I do hope tourists will start flocking to Caramoan in droves.  I have a feeling it’s going to become more famous.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vcuyco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1307472&amp;post=70&amp;subd=vcuyco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the deployment ban to Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Travels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deployment ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipino seafarers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[overseas Filipino workers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opportunities abound in dangerous postings like Afghanistan precisely because not many people are willing to work in risky areas.  When you add the fact that Filipinos’ skills in rebuilding a post-conflict society are in high demand, the influx of Filipino workers to Afghanistan becomes understandable.  It is not fair for the government to provide protection to some overseas workers and not to others.  The Philippine government should lift the ban.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vcuyco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1307472&amp;post=57&amp;subd=vcuyco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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