Twenty years of teaching must sure amount to something. A new friend in cyberspace suggested I ought to have a journal by now. I agree.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Fair is fair!
There are three sides of the truth: your truth, my truth and the truth. I have blogged about the golf incident but that was based on one side of the story. The Valley Golf club had already come out with its investigation and has given penalties to what it thinks were at fault. The verdict can be read here. Since the parties are both unknown to me and that I have nothing to gain from taking sides, as I am not wont to take sides on any story anyway, I am reproducing the other side of the story for your perusal. You can read it here
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After reading the mayor's side, my reaction was, "Ah, ok..." But when I read this part:
Blocking is way to the locker room, Hussein replied, “Hindi ka pa ba umaalis? Sumusobra ka na”, the young Bino Lorenzo went in the middle saying, “Huwag po, fourteen years old lang ako”, and yet having his fist ready to give him a punch.
Dito na ako nagtaka. Malabo ata yun. I think the boy was already pleading for the beating (of his dad and himself) to stop. Pero hindi pa rin sila tinitigilang bugbugin kaya natural lumalaban pa rin yung bata.
Then, I read the daughter's blog entry about that day in
http://vicissitude-decidido.blogspot.com Na-inis na naman ako!
The Pangandaman's story has a lot of holes. Making themselves sound like angels... Yeah, RIGHT!
The problem with this case is that the offending party will certainly resort to delaying tactics, making the case drag on way beyond the people's normal attention span. Once they reach that point, they will force the other party to either drop the charges or go for an amicable settlement.
In the end, walang makukulong na naman. :(
SL and Panaderos Since we were not there naman, let's just see how this will end in the courts.
Hehe, the whole thing reminds me of this story we had to read in a Humanities class back in college. It's called In a Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, where a single incident was told from the perspectives of the different people involved. It was interesting, as is this Valley Golf incident.
I remember reading somewhere that our perception of an emotional event is strongly affected by our emotions at that moment (duh), pero to the point that if you try to remember it after some time (like years) have passed, you'll have a totally different view of things. Like there was this teacher who made his students write about what they were feeling right after it was announced that JFK had been assasinated (or something, I can't really remember which major event was involved), and then he had them read their work like 10 years later, and most of them went, "I didn't write that."
Here's a link to In the Grove pala, in case you're interested (or have time) to read it. :)
http://www.daily-pulp.com/crime/in-a-grove-by-ryunosuke-akutagawa/
miki I think I should do that. Read again what I've written ten years ago. I wonder what would have changed by then. My ideals? Maybe my writing style which hopefully would be a lot better.
Thanks for the link on the story.
After reading the whole story on both sides. I find that these 2 group do not know the meaning of patience.
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