The Philippines celebrates its 110th independence day

The Philippines celebrates its 110th independence day on June 12, 20008.

I was watching the news (almost everyday) when I realized that today is the Philippines 110^th independence day and saw the events and happenings that took place across the different regions of the country, even the Filipinos abroad didn’t pass this momentous event.

As a celebration to its independence day, Filipinos commemorates its liberty by performing ceremonies and activities and these includes President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo unveiling of the flag marker and the flag-raising ceremonies at the Rizal Park, Manila City. The president said that the government withholds a grand parade to welcome its 110^th Independence Day celebration since our country is facing hard times due to high price of oil and food, instead they’ll conserve resources so that the government can use the budget to give direct service to the people.

The biggest network here in the Philippines, ABS-CBN also joined the commemoration by launching a program called BAYANIJAUN which is to revive the concept of bayanihan among Filipinos within the country. The program aims to promote the spirit of volunteerism and hopes that this would make a difference in some of the poorest communities in the country through the comprehensive programs.

The BAYANIJUAN was launched simultaneously in all ABS-CBN employees in Manila, Bagiuo, Cebu, Davao and Australia. A 15-minute was shown live on air around (9:30) am.

Surprisingly, MRT & LRT Management offered a free ride during peak hours from 7 to 9 a.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m.. The MRT General Manager Roberto Lastimoso said that this is their way to celebrate and to commemorate Independence Day. That’s a great news for me since “JUAN DELA CRUz” is stressed out by the “high-price of everything” going on these days.

I thought that the Filipinos are all too preoccupied that has been happening lately in our country. With all the “high-price of everything”, people are freaking out but it doesn’t mean that I’m not affected, I’m just surprised that despite all of these stuffs, the Filipinos still had time to celebrate which is a good thing and we should never forget that many lives were lost and most of them were unsung heroes that must be valued. If it wasn’t for them, we’d be SLAVES by some Spanish or American dudes and we wouldn’t want that.

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