Many things had happened since the time this
site first came up. I left CyberDyaryo and other lucrative extra
writing jobs, moved to Vancouver, got married, met a very serious car
accident, and had two kids.
I am now living with numerous disabilities as a result of a
traumatic brain injury
from my accident, but to paraphrase the Beatles, I get by with a little help from friends,
professionals, and of course, my family, my kids especially.
Some things hardly changed, however. I'm still crazy with
sushi and sashimi, I still read
Dave Barry.
As before, I still love extreme adventure sports, though doing them is impossible now, given
my current pysical condition. I've done adaptive waterskiing, however, as
well as gliding, and the very relaxing disabled sailing.
But I have high hopes for my children, and want to see them
pursue such hobbies as
sky-diving for Vladi, figure skating for Miwa, and platform diving for DJ. But that's wishful thinking
several years ahead of time, so for now, memories of me
bungee-jumping, tubing (the Philippines' local, more dangerous
variation of white-water rafting), spelunking ,
skating, board surfing, or playing volleyball and tennis make me
relatively happy. I dream of writing a book on adventure sports
(among the many books I plan to write) and these memories keep my
desire burning.
At the moment,
absurdist fiction facinates me, so doodling and reading in
the next little while will be for that pursuit.
If you want to work with me and want to know my humble background first, go to my resume. With my handicaps, however, I plan to
write extensively, hopefully, in this lifetime ;-). I'm oozing with
story ideas now, after all that I've been through.
The kids and I go to church, too, to Our Lady of Good Counsel.
To get focused, the Supreme Court of Canada judgments is, to me, a good
centering read, enough to get me through a day of confusion. You might also
want to try the interesting links here .
This site is created and maintained by
Gina Mission. For
comments, send e-mail to gina@gina.ph.
Since November 4, 2000
I started writing in 1998. This list, however, does not
contain all the articles I wrote from then on, mostly because
this web site didn't come about until early 2000. By that time,
most of my articles that were on the archives of this and that
publication had been "retired."
- Jun 21, 2000:
Ancestral lands to be affected by landmark legislation
- Jun 21, 2000:
Sorry in Happy Hollow
- Jun 19, 2000:
The Ibalois of Baguio: Lost in their own land
- Jun 14, 2000:
Restoring people's faith in agrarian reform
- Jun 13, 2000:
Will Hacienda Maria farmers lose their land?
- Jun 08, 2000:
Controversy in Sapang Palay: Validity of land titles
questioned
- Jun 07, 2000: 'Divide and rule'
strategy splits Sapang Palay farmers
- Jun 06, 2000: Agrarian reform under
Estrada - Cancelled CLOAs, cancelled lives
- Jun 02, 2000: Attacking poverty on
all fronts
- Jun 01, 2000: P208 billion for
social services - Fighting poverty through better health and
education
- May 31, 2000: Ancestral lands:
Indigenous peoples? weapon against poverty
- May 30, 2000: NAPC reports after two
years - How far have the anti-poverty programs gone?
- May 26, 2000: Indigenous peoples
shape their own lives
- May 23, 2000: Mandatory fee triggers
protests - Bleeding overseas workers dry
- May 15, 2000: The politics of hybrid
rice - Food security or huge private profits?
- May 11, 2000: What the cameras
failed to catch in the midst of a 'nonsense war'
- Apr 25, 2000: Vision of the
ice-cream Santa - A city rising from the pit of
poverty
- Apr 17, 2000: Restless in Sapang
Palay - Will farmers lose the lands they till?
- Apr 12, 2000: Surprise revelations
at the committee meeting in Congress - The continuing saga of
the commission that still can't
- Apr 07, 2000: How goes the
anti-poverty program?
- Apr 05, 2000: Communities opposed to
mining face an uphill battle
- Mar 30, 2000: The case of the
suicide seeds: `Terminator technology' not terminated
- Mar 28, 2000: Helping children in
crisis
- Mar 23, 2000: Filipino workers as
`subcontractuals': Overworked, underpaid, unprotected
- Mar 21, 2000: Hacienda Looc
killings: Still many loose ends
- Mar 17, 2000: Going organic: How to
start a mini-herbal garden, according to Domini
Torrevillas
- Mar 16, 2000: A tale of two laws:
Indigenous peoples: Poor cousins to mining interests
- Mar 15, 2000: Murders at Haciena
Looc: A struggle for land, a struggle for life
- Mar 10, 2000: Aiding livestock and
poultry raisers at corn farmers' expense
- Mar 09, 2000: Angat pinoy 2004: It's
everybody's business
- Mar 07, 2000:
Census 2000: Counting everybody in
- Mar 03, 2000: Looking for a
responsive land, water use policy
- Mar 01, 2000: Civil society,
business and government break barriers of fear and
mistrust
- Feb 29, 2000: A reversal of fate:
Ilog Palico watchers accused of polluting the river
- Feb 28, 2000: Exorcising the war
exercise
- Feb 24, 2000: Giving Mindanao its
due
- Feb 23, 2000: The language of guns:
It's Greek to Aetas
- Feb 22, 2000: Malacanang creates
still another task force to implement IPRA
- Feb 16, 2000: A community speaks
out
- Feb 15, 2000: The Filipina under
Estrada `A nightmare of poverty, injustice,
degradation'
- Jan 27, 2000: Irreconcilable
differences? Mining companies and affected communities attempt
to dialogue
- Jan 20, 2000: In the year 2000:
Health for all still a dream
- Jan 20, 2000: IBON on Estradas 1999
economic report: A year of ironies and half-truths in troubled
times
- Jan 20, 2000: How to put a little
reason in the world
Older CyberDyaryo Articles
- Dec 23, 1999: Celebrating a
life-long love of learning
- Dec 16, 1999: Where are the funds
for the Clean Air Act?
- Dec 09, 1999: At Triumph
International: A hard life on the assembly line
- Dec 02, 1999: The raging debate
over retail nationalization: Irreconciliable
differences?
- Nov 18, 1999: Rape and the
"othered" woman
- Nov 18, 1999: DENR, MGB defend
budget
- Nov 11, 1999: Sordid tales of the
budget process (or, How the indigenous peoples are getting it
in the neck)
- Nov 04, 1999: Lingap agencies gear
up for project implementation
- Nov 04, 1999: Helping in Timor:
looking for God amid lost souls
- Oct 28, 1999: The deregulation of
overseas employment: the looming apocalypse? Second of two
parts
- Oct 21, 1999: World Food Day:
Advancing the right to food
- Oct 21, 1999: The deregulation of
overseas employment: the looming apocalypse? First of two
parts
- Oct 14, 1999: A death in Hong Kong
Second of two parts
- Oct 07, 1999: Bumming around in
Basey: An eco-tourism experience
- Oct 07, 1999: Sampung Ulirang
Nakatatanda Awardees: Ordinary yet noble lives
- Oct 07, 1999: A death in
Hongkong
- Sep 30, 1999: WWF marine police:
Saving the Sulu Sea
- Sep 30, 1999: Pinoy creativity and
community empowerment at Civicus
- Sep 23, 1999: Bukidnon farming
communities as social laboratories?
- Sep 23, 1999: NCIP to get its
funding finally
- Sep 16, 1999: NAPC problem: How to
spend P2.5 billion in three months
- Sep 09, 1999: Poverty alleviation
in Kalookan City
- Sep 02, 1999: A river in
peril
- Aug 26, 1999: Poverty alleviation
through mushroom farming in Mindanao
- Aug 26, 1999: Big swindle in
Hacienda Looc? Second of three parts
- Aug 19, 1999: Beyond beans and
farm beds
- Aug 12, 1999: CARP: Threat or
opportunity? Second of Two Parts
- Aug 12, 1999: The re-birth of
Talaingod
- Aug 05, 1999: CARP: Opportunity or
threat?
- Jul 29, 1999: The state of the
nation outside the Batasan: What a difference a year
makes
- Jul 29, 1999: Mapalad update:
Farmers pack up after 89 days at the Supreme Court
- Jul 22, 1999: Ten steps forward,
eleven steps backward
- Jul 22, 1999: People POWER
online
- Jul 22, 1999: Breaking pineapples
together
- Jul 15, 1999: KKK: Giving
government anti-poverty program a human face, or just plain
bingo?
- Jul 15, 1999: In search of food
security
- Jul 08, 1999: Pamantasan ng
Kababaihang Pilipino gives Erap failing grades in all his
subjects
- Jul 08, 1999: The MRL experience:
A baptism of fire for the IPRA
- Jul 08, 1999: Living la vida
toxica
- Jul 08, 1999: Finally, Erap
launches an anti-poverty program L experience: A baptism of
fire for the IPRA
- Jul 01, 1999: Is weak governance
hampering agricultural efficiency in the Philippines?
- Jun 10, 1999: University of the
Philippines: drifting toward mediocrity?
- Jun 03, 1999: Living with price
hikes: the faces of coping
- Jun 03, 1999: Agrarian reform
revisited Second of two parts
- May 27, 1999: Quo vadis human
rights claimants? Second of two parts
- May 27, 1999: Agrarian reform
revisited
- May 27, 1999: Diploma in
Agricultural Entrepreneurship: Reinventing agricultural
education
- May 20, 1999: Quo vadis human
rights claimants? The first of two parts
- May 20, 1999: The economic cost of
violence against Filipino women
- May 13, 1999: Showdown at the IP
corral
- May 13, 1999: Urban poor community
goes on-line
- May 06, 1999: NGO proposes debt
swap for agrarian reform
- May 06, 1999: Civil society to
foreign creditors: "Break the chains of debt!"
- Apr 29, 1999: Q and A: An
interview with Donna Gasgonia
- Apr 29, 1999: IPRA: Staying
alive
- Apr 29, 1999: SALT: where upland
farming can be sustainable
- Apr 15, 1999: Breaking the
silence
- Apr 08, 1999: Parenting at
work
- Mar 25, 1999: And they shall build
houses and inhabit them
- Mar 18, 1999: TRIPS: Rape of the
century?
- Mar 11, 1999: Philippines economy:
Full deregulation or government control?
- Mar 11, 1999: Shaving one's head,
saving the environment
- Mar 04, 1999: Clark residents in
real danger of toxic contamination
- Mar 04, 1999: Civil society
protests dismantling of NAPC law
- Feb 25, 1999: Tala Leprosarium:
from leper paradise to perdition Second of two parts
- Feb 25, 1999: Sex Trafficking of
Women: They are so syndicated
- Feb 18, 1999: Anti-sex-trafficking
project sparks active debate about overseas employment
- Feb 18, 1999: Tala Leprosarium:
from lepers' paradise to perdition First of two parts
- Feb 11, 1999: Putting rice into
Asians' consciousness
- Feb 11, 1999: NGO offers
alternatives to overseas migration
- Feb 04, 1999: The other face of
Mindanao
- Jan 28, 1999: Local communities go
on air
- Jan 07, 1999: Who will save the
saviors of the Philippine economy?
